Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
Interpretation
The success of others can inspire and guide your own journey.
Steve Wynn's quote emphasizes the positive impact of observing the successes of others. Instead of feeling envy, one should view these achievements as opportunities for learning and growth. When others succeed, they illuminate a path that indicates that such successes are possible, providing motivation to pursue one's own goals with renewed vigor and direction.
In practice
In a team meeting when discussing individual and team achievements to encourage collaboration.
I say don't overreact; cool your jets. Focus on things that you can control: your business, your employees' welfare, your guests, and the quality of the product that you dish up. Do that, keep your chin down, pay attention to business, and the sun will come up tomorrow. That's the way I figure it.
The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.
Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.
It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?
In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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