Quotes about Development

People are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, no matter how much or how little natural leadership talent you possess, you need to become a serving leader.

A person who cannot sacrifice will never belong to himself; he belongs to whatever he was unwilling to give up. If you want to develop maturity and gain the value of learning, you need to learn to give up some things today for greater gains tomorrow.

Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.

Anything really worthwhile in life takes time to build.

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

Leadership is developed, not discovered. It's a process.

Before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.

Stopping to reflect is one of the most valuable activities people can do to grow.

Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.