Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Interpretation
Take charge of your life or risk letting others determine your path.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal agency and decision-making in achieving one's goals. It warns that if individuals do not take control of their own futures, they may end up being influenced or dictated by the ambitions and desires of others, which can lead to a life that is not truly fulfilling or aligned with one's own values and visions.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference, a speaker might share this quote to inspire career-driven individuals.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...
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