Words matter. These are the best Robin S. Sharma Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To get to world-class, don’t miss any opportunity to leverage the learning/insights/experiences of the people you meet. Because we really do become our conversations.
Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all’s going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything’s falling apart?
Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.
One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.
Don’t always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what’s possible for you.
The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.
I love great quotes.
Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate – from the janitor to the executive – begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
No one wants to fail. So most of us don’t even try. Sad. We don’t even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.
So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they’ve experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.
There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works – it’s called lifelong learning.
Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best – I suggest to you – move in the opposite direction.
I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.
Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
As for whether I am a ‘new age guru’, I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can’t stand slow change.
The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.
I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he’s had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
Talk is cheap. Actions speak.
I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I’d speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.
Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up – and they’re not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
The people you can’t stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.
We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty – even when it limits them.
Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.
The brighter the fire in your belly to achieve something special, the more hurts you’ll have.
The true leader – the genuine world-builder – lives to the point. Acutely concentrated on the few high priorities that will deliver the life of their greatest aspirations. At the end.
Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.
The difference between a remarkable life and a mediocre one is not nearly as large as you might imagine. Nope, we all pretty much start out with the same raw stuff.
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty – even when it limits them.
If you’re the smartest person you know, it’s time to know some new people.
True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don’t be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
The little things amount to big things.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
Inner improvements create outer ones.
The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
Be there for people, and they’ll be there for you.
Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it’s show time and you’re at your best.
Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people’s names and titles.
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.
Stay true to your vision/dream. There’s something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don’t get to do both.
If you’re the most productive person in your community, it’s definitely time to find a new community.
I’m a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.
Talk is cheap. Actions speak.
Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger, and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that’s not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
I move things forward fast. Just love speed.
It’s so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world, and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have.
I’m not one of those New Age types that believe ‘it’s all meant to be’ and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.
I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
I was a litigation lawyer. That’s all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it’s been a great choice for me in my life.
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
Help others reach world-class. And they’ll joyfully help you get to your best.
I’ve found I get big things done when I’m on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It’s a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the ‘do not disturb’ on the phone and door for a week.
Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn’t living according to my values, and I didn’t have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.
Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn’t that hard.
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you’ll enjoy exponential results automatically.
Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you’ll enjoy exponential results automatically.
Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.
The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today’s the time to do big things.
Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.
If you’re the smartest person you know, it’s time to know some new people.
The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.
I’d done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.
When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I’m around nature a lot.
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It’s one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
