Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
Pat SummittRead
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
Interpretation
Surrounding yourself with positive, successful people increases your own chances of success.
This quote emphasizes the significant influence that our social circles have on our achievements and personal growth. Pat Summitt suggests that by associating with people who strive for success, we are more likely to adopt similar attitudes and behaviors, ultimately leading to our own victories in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about team dynamics at a corporate event.
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'
Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.
Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.
If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
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