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“Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.”

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

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The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

This book delves into the importance of trust in various aspects of life, offering insights on how to build, maintain, and restore trust in personal and professional settings. It discusses the impact of trust on leadership, teamwork, and organizational culture. more

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Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey was an American author, entrepreneur, and lecturer, best known for his book 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. Since its publication in 1989, this book has become a global bestseller and has had a profound impact on personal and organizational development. more

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Persons Doe Ideas Self Motivational Acting Team Position Humility Building Concerned Humble Contribution Manifest Good Ideas Recognizing Outdated Humble Person

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

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“Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.”

Way Motivational Simple Results Inspire Definitions Definition Of Leadership

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

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“The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.”

Looks Littles Self Shows Eye Wish Huge Size Fishes Hardest Look Up Spells Whales Dots Anatomy My Wish

Author:William Blake

“Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."”

Want Left Wish Effort Tired South Yankees

Author:Vivien Leigh

“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.”

Mean Littles Light Eye Wish Reader Pages Magazines Tape Arrangements Binding

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.”

Ifs Hard Enough Wish Anything Is Possible

Author:James M. Barrie

“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”

Giving Night Wish Style Familiar Volume Elegant Day And Night Coarse Ostentatious

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.”

Ifs Might Wish Horse Beggar

Author:John Ray

“And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.”

Wish Saws Grace

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

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