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Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.
An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.
Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.
Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.
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The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
