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September 30, 2017
dreams never followed because someone decided he had to be more logical?”
the goals have to be reasonable--”
“Reasonable,” he interrupted. “There’s another word people love to throw around when they fear failure, when they fear taking their best shot at life.
It’s just an excuse to think smaller, to avoid the challenge of thinking bigger and putt...
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know the difference between being a manager and ...
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The manager tries to maintain what is already there. His job is to manage what has already been created.
“Leading, on the other hand, is about creating something new.
leader must lead his people to new heights. A leader moves forward, thinks bigger, and creates a new path—a path that wasn’t there before.
A leader isn’t afraid to dream big even though he must face the unk...
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level that most people think is unrealistic o...
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“Tell me, how are you being realistic? What’s realistic about only winning three of your final five games?
“It’s not arrogant to dream big,
it’s courageous,”
you didn’t lose at Miami because you were dreaming too big. You lost because you put yourself before the people you were supposed to be leading.
That’s what arrogance is.
don’t confuse setting bold goals and high expectations with being arrogant.
“You’re never going to get to where you need to be if you keep thinking like that,”
start dreaming big again.
Suddenly, people realized it was OK to dream big again.
roughly two decades where big-thinking, big-dreaming optimism drove this nation to new heights. Some of the greatest entrepreneurs, innovators, athletes, writers, artists, coaches, and leaders arose out of that period.
people are afraid to dream big.
They think it’s too risky. They’re afraid of failing.
They’re afraid of what other people might say about them. They...
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‘We need to be more realistic.’ ‘Now is not the time.’ ‘Our best ...
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set big goals and we went out and accomplished them.
then, people got fearful.
They started telling themselves they didn’t control their own destinies.
the opportunities that existed in the past ...
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started blaming everybody...
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their neighbors, their parents, the politicians, the res...
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Out of fear and resentment, they taught themselves to stop dreaming big, to stop hoping for better days, to stop reaching higher and highe...
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They believe they’re being practical
there’s no such thing as total security. It’s a false promise.
when you choose safety and security, you’re usually cho...
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when you fall into complacency, you lower your expectations and you give ...
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When your goal is to simply survive, you’ll...
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“At any given time, you’re either moving forward or you’re moving backward.
maintaining the status quo. It never works.
set your sights on maintaining, you start sli...
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You’re either playing to win or playing...
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you owe it to your players to encourage them to believe bigger.
Failure is a necessary step on the path to making big dreams comes true.
failure along the way confirms that you’re setting big goals,
Past failures lead to future victories
the most important lesson anyone can ever learn about failure: the only true failure is giving up.
set big, crazy, unreasonable goals, you’ll never know how far you could’ve gone.
it takes courage to chase big dreams.
It takes courage to set big goals ag...
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no matter how many times you ...
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To be a leader, you must have the courage...
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