Presentation Date: June 25, 2019
- “The greatest discovery of my generation is that people can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.” – William James
- “Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination.” – Michael Phelps
- “Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
- “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
- “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” – Babe Ruth
Presentation Date: June 18, 2019
- “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek
- “Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin
- “Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort.” – Jeff Bullas
- “Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.” – Elon Musk
- “Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room – remember that. And more importantly, let’s discover why!” – Chris Ducker
Presentation Date: June 11, 2019
- “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The worst thing you can say is ‘I want $X for this job,’ leaving no opening for negotiation by the other side. Better language is ‘I hope to earn between $X and $X.’ That gives the other party more flexibility.” – Bill Coleman
- “Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “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.” – James Altucher
- “Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It’s the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.” – Ivanka Trump
Presentation Date: June 4, 2019
- “Everything you want in life is a relationship away.” – Idowu Koyenikan
- “It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically” – Meg Jay
- “It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.” – Michelle Tillis Lederman
- “Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.” – Michele Jennae
Presentation Date: May 28, 2019
- “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” - Warren Buffett
- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey (from “Bossypants”)
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.” – Steve Wozniak
Presentation Date: May 21, 2019
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.” – Bruce Lee
- “There is only one success: to be bale to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
Presentation Date: May 14, 2019
- “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” – Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown
- “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
- “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett
Presentation Date: May 7, 2019
- “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
- “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
- “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs
- “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” – Tony Morgan
- “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” – Alan Lakein
Presentation Date: April 30, 2019
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” – Bob Marley
- “If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” – Franck Wilczek
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
- “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd
Presentation Date: April 23, 2019
- “You have about 1 to 2 minutes to leave an impression powerful enough to get someone to continue the conversation.” – Kevin Daum
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “I have found that an effective elevator pitch is nine things: concise, clear, compelling, credible, conceptual, concrete, consistent, customized and conversational.” – Chris O’Leary
- “The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.” – Seth Gordon
- “Your audience is waiting for your stories. They have memory slots tailor-made to light up and remember you.” – Steve Woodruff
Presentation Date: April 16, 2019
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another, for the positive energy to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.” – Deborah Day
- “Being brave is not the the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way THROUGH it.” – Bear Grylls
- “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he is afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford
- “Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.” – Brian Tracy
Presentation Date: April 9, 2019
- “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
- “My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.” – Ashton Eaton
- “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
- “Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.” – Susan L. Taylor
- “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands-off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” – Melody Beattie
Presentation Date: April 2, 2019
- “The key to staying relevant in the world is constantly challenging and reinventing yourself.” ― Kelly Leonard
- “I’ve met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn’t feel like ‘networking.’ It’s both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.” – Narciso Rodriguez
- “Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can’t buy friendships.” – Lindsay Fox
- “One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.” – Lewis Howes
- “Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.” – Sallie Krawcheck
Presentation Date: March 26, 2019
- “Fearlessness is necessary for the development of other noble qualities.” – Gandhi
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “You may not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
- “Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
Presentation Date: March 19, 2019
- “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn
- “If you do what is hard, your life will be easy. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard.” – Les Brown
- “Believe you can and your halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Fear seduces us into trying to control stuff we can’t.” – Gary Frey
- “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: March 12, 2019
- “If you can’t relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you’re too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.” – Travis Bradberry
- “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” – Tony Robbins
- “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it.” – Simon Sinek
Presentation Date: March 5, 2019
- “Clear your mind of can’t.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle and awesome in the end… Because in the end, it shows you a whole new world.” – Manoj Arora
- “We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” – Joseph Campbell
- “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” – Bertha Calloway
Presentation Date: February 26, 2019
- “This is hard work. I’ve worked hard for a long time. It’s not about winning — what it’s about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. There’s a discipline for passion, and it’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or get beaten up. It’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and keep going.” – Lady Gaga
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Always remember your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “It’s really much easier to be successful when you’re a good person, when you help everyone around you.” – Kim Rhode
Presentation Date: February 19, 2019
- ”Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “It’s simple arithmetic: Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.” – T. Harv Eker
- “All of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.” – John F. Kennedy
- “In the workplace, the things that make me feel most valued are set goals, extra responsibility, challenging projects, and rewards for my work well done. I want to see that my work is being valued rather than empty promises.” – Nikita Sabharwal, High Achieving Millennial (HAM)
- “You don’t always need to understand your journey in life, you just need to trust that you’re going in the right direction.” – Steven Aitchison
Presentation Date: February 12, 2019
- “Hire for passion and intensity. There is training for everything else.” – Nolan Bushnell
- “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” – Ferdinand Foch
- “As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.” – Jim Carrey
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Hire for passion first, experience second, and credentials third.” – Paul Alofs
Presentation Date: February 5, 2019
- “I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.” – Kathryn Minshew
- “The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people simply list everything they’ve ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.” – Marcus Buckingham
- “Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you – you don’t really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.” – Caroline Ghosn
- “No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.” – Jay Baruchel
Presentation Date: January 29, 2019
- “Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.” – Sallie Krawcheck
- “I’ve met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn’t feel like ‘networking.’ It’s both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.” – Narciso Rodriguez
- “Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.” – Sonia Sotomayor
- “Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.” – Jay Samit
- “Effective networking isn’t a result of luck – it requires hard work and persistence.” – Lewis Howes
Presentation Date: January 22, 2019
- “Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.” – Sir David Frost
- “Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.” – Carrie Fisher
- “We are sometimes humbled by the realization that, unlike their house, someone’s bank balance or paycheck is bigger than ours.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “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
Presentation Date: January 15, 2019
- “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
- “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse to avoid trouble.” – Mohandas Gandhi
- “We can let circumstances rules us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” – Abraham Lincoln
Presentation Date: January 8, 2019
- “Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
- “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
