Leadership Quotes for Better Performance
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Billie Jean King
Notable Quotes
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.”
Ralph Marston
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
Denis Waitley
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
Mae West
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
“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.”
Robin Sharma
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
“You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.”
Bill Parcells
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.”
Sun Tzu
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
Indira Gandhi
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
Warren Buffett
“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”
James Allen
“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.”
Indra Nooyi
Additional Reading
Great at Work: The Hidden Habits of Top Performers by Morten T. Hansen
Supportive Accountability: How to Inspire People and Improve Performance by Sylvia Melen
Point of Reflection
Do you have a definition of success for your business that allows you to stand for something special and that inspires others to stand with you?