What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?
Interpretation
True success involves helping others rather than just striving for personal achievement.
This quote emphasizes the importance of collaboration and support in the pursuit of success. It suggests that being the best is not worthwhile if it comes at the expense of others, advocating for a more uplifting approach where individuals help each other rise rather than engaging in selfish competition.
In practice
A motivational speech aimed at young entrepreneurs encouraging them to collaborate.
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
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