The people I coach are very successful people, so it's very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it's trivial and not worth it, we still want to win - because we love winning. It's a very deep habit.
Interpretation
Winning becomes an ingrained habit for successful individuals, often leading them to seek victories in even trivial matters.
This quote by Marshall Goldsmith emphasizes the innate desire of successful individuals to win, highlighting that this urge often transcends the significance of the competition. Winning becomes a fundamental aspect of their identity, deeply embedded in their routines and motivations, reflecting the thrill and joy they derive from being victors, even in less important scenarios.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire individuals in a business setting.
Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, βThank you.
The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.
Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.
If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.
A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
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