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.
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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
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You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.
I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.
I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.
The time for your labor has been granted.
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