Quotes About Empowerment

When I studied phobias, I didn't study the people who had them. I studied the people who got over them.

All of these people, as they told me their stories, shared certain things in common. One example was that they reached a point where they got so fed up they stopped thinking about what scared them. They started to look at themselves being afraid and started thinking, This is really silly. Elements like these, which they all shared in common, allowed me to develop the first "phobia cure." It wasn't really a "cure" so much as a "lesson.

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....

And, together, we can make America great, and strong again.

No man is demolished but by himself.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

The way to become a great leader is to look for the best in people – seldom criticise – always praise.

hay un área en las que usted debe meterse y hacer buena parte de trabajo por sí mismo es el proceso de contratación.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

desarrollar una fuerte labor de liderazgo y mantener una cultura en la que sus empleados sepan que usted los valora, los empodera y confía en ellos.

Sea como sea, cuando hay un líder autoritario en la cima de la pirámide, lo más probable es que las personas en las capas inferiores tengan menor capacidad para tomar decisiones oportunas, basándose en sus instintos. Preferirán, en cambio, remitir las cosas al nivel superior, con lo cual reducen las posibilidades de equivocarse y/o de excederse respecto a sus funciones asignadas.

El arte de delegar es una de las habilidades claves que cualquier emprendedor debe dominar. "Contrate gente que no tenga sus debilidades". Si

I became the lease holder of the Roof Gardens after a bouncer refused me entry for wearing jeans and looking too scruffy. I bought the place the next day, and gently informed the bouncer to let me in regardless of my clothing. He turned out to be a delightful gentleman and ended up working for us for another three decades.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

Let go of those painful and traumatic experiences and hold on to those precious moments in your life.

leadership is not power over others. Rather, leadership is power with them.

John MacArthur writes: "[Andrew] did not seek to be the center of attention. He did not seem to resent those who labored in the limelight. He was evidently pleased to do what he could with the gifts and calling God had bestowed on him, and he allowed the others to do likewise."2

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.