Quotes about Value

Leaders have to deal simultaneously with people issues and business issues, and they need to be able to do both effectively. That's an art. As you work to develop people, maintain a relational approach, valuing them and adding value to them. At the same time, do what you must to achieve a good bottom line.

If the price is an issue, then realize that there is also a price to be paid for lack of commitment. If you fail to develop proper commitment, what will you forfeit? On the other hand, if you pay the price, what benefit will you gain?

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.

If you want to succeed at Level 4, you need to become an investor in people. This means adding value but also expecting to see a return on your investment—not in personal gain but in impact.

The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.

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.

Am I adding value to people?

A servant leader's value rests in why he does what he does and how well he does it, not in what he does or how often he does it. This allows him to find value in who he is.

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.

They are committed to excellence. John Johnson in Christian Excellence writes, "Success bases our worth on a comparison with others. Excellence gauges our value by measuring us against our own potential. Success grants its rewards to the few but is the dream of the multitudes. Excellence is available to all living beings but is accepted by the... few.

When they find someone who can communicate something of value to them, they will usually listen.

KEY CONCEPT: Connecting begins when the other person feels valued.