Explore Quotes by David Cottrell

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

People quit people before they quit companies.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.