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Presentation Date: December 4, 2018
- “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” – Nelson Mandela
- “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
- “The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” – John C. Maxwell
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
Presentation Date: November 27, 2018
- “Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.” – Jim Rohn
- “If you really look closely, most overnight success took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “First we make our habits, then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is inspiring because the challenge now exists to make things better.” – Whitney Young Jr.
Presentation Date: November 20, 2018
- “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas J. Watson Sr.
- “Don’t bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
Presentation Date: November 13, 2018
- “People may hear your words, but fell your attitude.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Feelings are much like waves; we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.” – Jonatan Martensson
- “Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsty for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.” – Dale Carnegie
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Presentation Date: November 6, 2018
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Personal Branding is about building authority that gets people to pay attention to your message and want to share it and recommend it to others.” – Mark Traphagen
- “Building a profitable personal brand online is not a sprint, and something that happens over night. Don’t aim for perfection early on. Instead allow your brand to evolve naturally over time and focus on providing massive value and over deliver to your target audience. Then you will get more clear over your message and brand as well. Always remember that!” – Navid Moazzez
- “All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” – Tom Peters in Fast Company
Presentation Date: October 30, 2018
- “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – John Maxwell
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
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- “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
- “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not the job.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” – Ray Kroc
- “Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.” – Kathy Witten
Presentation Date: October 16, 2018
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Live to learn and you will really learn to live.” – John C. Maxwell
- “We don’t pay the price for success, we pay the price for failure. We enjoy the benefits of success.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- ”Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
Presentation Date: October 9, 2018
- “Always remember your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas
- ”I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.” – Duke Ellington
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.`” – Muhammad Ali
- “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
Presentation Date: October 2, 2018
- “Direction, not lack of time is the problem. We all have a twenty-four hour day.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Forward-deployed engineers, who sell, but aren’t salespeople, the most important thing they do is find the right problems to solve.” – Shyam Sankar
- “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell others to yourself.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments of mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” – Rick Warren
- “The more you explain bad events as temporary, specific and external, the more likely you are to persist even in the face of adversity.” – Dan Pink, To Sell is Human (2012)
Presentation Date: September 25, 2018
- “Hiring the right people takes time, the right questions, and a healthy dose of curiosity.” – Sir Richard Branson
- “Modern recruiters make the customer’s brand come to life through the candidate’s experience and interactions with them.” – Jennifer McClure
- “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
- “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schultz
- “There’s a lot that is good in your life – don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today.” – Joel Osteen
Presentation Date: September 18, 2018
- “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers.” – Ralph Nader
- “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
- “An employee’s motivation is the direct result of the sum of his interactions with his or her manager.” – Bob Nelson
- “Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader… They set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role – always about the goal.” – Lisa Haish
Presentation Date: September 11, 2018
- “Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.” – Carrie Fisher
- “The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.” – Howard Baker
- “You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don’t care what happens. If you don’t care, you’ve won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn’t care is going to win.” – Felix Dennis
- “A small pay discrepancy between men’s and women’s salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.” Madeleine M. Kunin
- “Success isn’t about the money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
Presentation Date: September 4, 2018
- “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.” – Tim Cook
- “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” – Michelle Obama
- “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan
Presentation Date: August 28, 2018
- “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin
- “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.” – Lee Iacocca
- “Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy
Presentation Date: August 21, 2018
- “When our body language is confident and open, other people respond in kind, unconsciously reinforcing not only their perception of us but also our perception of ourselves.” – Amy Cuddy
- “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
- “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.” – Dale Carnegie
- “There’s a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don’t let anybody tell you any different, because everyone’s special and everyone’s awesome.” – Mckayla Maroney
- “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
Presentation Date: August 14, 2018
- “A setback is only a setup for a comeback” – Ice Cube
- “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
Presentation Date: August 7, 2018
- “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let those feelings stop them.” – T. Harv Eker
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
Presentation Date: July 31, 2018
- “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
- “The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” – Sarah Dessen
- “If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” – Robert Fritz
- “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo
Presentation Date: July 24, 2018
- “The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future.” – Joyce Lain Kennedy
- “Come right out and say you want it: ‘It’s been great hearing you talk about the position. I’d love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.’” – Kate White
- “Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.” – John Altucher
- “When it comes to salary negotiation, don’t forget that salary is only one term of employment. What else is on the table – vacation time, benefits, bonuses, flex days? Before determining that these terms are ‘must-haves’ or ‘giveaways’ to get a bigger salary, find out what the counterpart has to offer.” – Christopher Voss
- “‘What is your desired salary?’ The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.” – Travis Bradberry
Presentation Date: July 17, 2018
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
- “At age 20, we worry what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover that they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers
- “I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.” – Daniel Petrie
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Never put an age limit on your dreams.” – Dara Torres
Presentation Date: July 10, 2018
- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
Presentation Date: July 3, 2018
- “Everyone you met knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
- “If you aren’t networking, you aren’t working.” – Dennis Waitley
- “It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically” – Meg Jay
- “Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.” – Michelle Tillis Lederman
