One can not charm or seduce their way out of lost time. Time has no mercy for those who take it for granted. – Patrick Bet-David
Are you hungry for success, but without a map to help you arrive at your desired destination? Are you convinced that the pursuit of excellence must be awakened while you are young and vibrant? If so, then this is the course for you, as you prepare yourself for life as a business professional.
Lessons
TEEN1
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“Surround yourself with the dreamers, and the doers, the believers, and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”– Edmund Lee
TEEN8
“Don’t ask for prices to fall, ask for your value to increase” ― Mac Duke The Strategist
TEEN11
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. – Max Lucado
TEEN14
“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.”
― Frantz Fanon
TEEN18
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. – Zig Ziglar
TEEN21
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs
TEEN24
Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others- Matshona Dhliwayo
TEEN27
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” Dale Carnegie
TEEN30
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” –Theodore Roosevelt
TEEN31
“Most people give up when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from the winning touchdown.”
– Ross Perot
TEEN32
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” – Zig Ziglar
TEEN33
“Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.”
– Christie Brinkley
TEEN34
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are. – Stephen Moyer
TEEN35
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” —Laurence Sterne
TEEN36
“A hard thing about business is minding your own.” —Unknown
TEEN37
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. – Proverbs 15:1
TEEN38
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman
TEEN39
Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast. – Anabel Jensen
TEEN40
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.” ― Criss Jami
TEEN41
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
– Bruce Lee
TEEN42
“A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.” – Aristotle
TEEN43
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”– Michael John Bobak
TEEN44
“Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti
TEEN45
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” — Robert Kiyosaki
TEEN46
Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens. – Benjamin Watson
TEEN47
“There is place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers – after the sale.” – Harvey MacKay
TEEN48
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” — Nikos Kazantzakis
TEEN49
“You’ll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be too easily duplicated. But a strong customer service culture cannot be copied.” – Jerry Fritz
TEEN50
“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”
― Bohdi Sanders
TEEN51
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. – Aristotle
TEEN52
“You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
TEEN53
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson
TEEN54
More demands on oneself and fewer demands on others keeps resentment at bay. – Chinese Proverb
TEEN55
“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?” ― Onyi Anyado
TEEN56
“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley
TEEN57
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A Edison
TEEN58
“The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.” William C. Menninger
TEEN59
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
TEEN60
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. – Alexis Carrel
TEEN29
Don’t find fault, find remedy. Anybody can complain. – Henry Ford
TEEN28
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” – Norman Shidle
TEEN26
“People want guidance, not rhetoric; they need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and the authority to act on it.” –Howard Schultz, Starbucks
TEEN25
“Start with why customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” –Simon Sinek
TEEN23
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden
TEEN22
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
TEEN20
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself. –Leo Tolstoy
TEEN19
Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way. ~Edward de Bono
TEEN17
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. – Francis of Assisi
TEEN16
A willingness to trust and openly listen to alternative ideas and views is essential for collaboration to be successful.” – Dale Eilerman
TEEN15
“Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.” – Dale Carnegie
TEEN13
“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.” – Howard Baker
TEEN12
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” ― Lawrence Clark Powell
TEEN10
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
TEEN9
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. – Garth Brooks
TEEN7
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”– David Allen
TEEN6
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” — Robert Kiyosaki
TEEN2
You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. – Aristotle
TEEN3
“I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough