Executive Thoughts · Notes
17 Quotes on Achievement and Business.
Lines on growth, fame, competition, and consistency.
A collection of my own lines on achievement, business, and personal branding, gathered from years of writing, speaking, and the podcast.
- “Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don’t stay broke.”
- “People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don’t have the big results.”
- “At the center of all achievement is personal growth.”
- “Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.”
- “Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.”
- “Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good or a force for destruction.”
- “Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.”
- “Feeling uncomfortable about a situation is oftentimes the indicator that growth is about to take place.”
- “True fame is not determined by the amount of people who heard of you, rather by the amount of people who support you.”
- “To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.”
- “To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point, however, is to ignore self-preservation.”
- “It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting.”
- “Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”
- “To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.”
- “The very answers in which we seek are staring back at us in every reflection.”
- “Even the master plan has room for improvement.”
- “Your results are testaments of your actions, not your promises.”
First published on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) on February 9, 2024. Lightly edited for this site.