It's Not About You Quotes

“You can judge someone’s character by what he does when no one’s watching.”
― Bob Burg, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

“who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.”
― Bob Burg, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

“Isn’t that how it always is? Just when you think you’ve lost something so precious, you can’t ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?”
― Bob Burg, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

“I just love that. Give people something good to live up to—something great—and they usually will. In fact, often they’ll even exceed those expectations.”
― Bob Burg, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

“The single biggest challenge to any organization is the constant cloud of fear and doubt that swirls around the heads of the people involved. As a leader, your job is to hold fast to the big picture, to keep seeing in your mind’s eye, with crystal clarity, where it is you’re going—that place that right at this moment exists only in your mind’s eye. And to keep seeing that, even when nobody else does.

Especially when nobody else does.

Your people count on you to do this. It’s the biggest job you have.”
― Bob Burg and John David Mann, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”
― Bob Burg, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business