Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.