It Is Not Your Business to Succeed Quotes

“For most of us, the vast majority of what we do in life is not sexy. Our daily grind isn’t glamorous or newsworthy, it’s just making stuff out of steel. But faithful leaders don’t need things to glitter for their work to produce gladness. Faithful leaders find meaning in the mundane knowing that their faithfulness in their daily hard work pleases the Lord. They know that behind the simple things we do is an eternal mission, a purpose, and an impact worth our faithfulness.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“We cannot link our understanding and trusting of God’s faithfulness to our results and outcomes. He is faithful regardless of our outcomes.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“In our leadership, let’s start by confessing our emptiness, embracing the gifts God has give us, and then faithfully lead others from a place of joyful, confident dependence on Jesus.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“If giving 100% at work means you can only give 10% when you get home, then give less at work. Your business doesn’t deserve your family.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“While I agree that there is a level of regret about not living intentionally, the tragedy of life is not having no goals. The tragedy of life is living your whole life chasing goals and dreams that don’t matter. The tragedy lies in being ambitiously committed to a dream that should have been surrendered in pursuit of something greater and better.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“When we tie our identity to our results, we begin to value the wrong things.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“Faithfulness doesn’t define success as a place reached or a goal accomplished, but as a consistent lifestyle lived and a heart place sought.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“If you have a purpose worth working for, you have a purpose worth guarding.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“Your authority isn’t a tool for you to generate wealth, build a reputation, or make your way into the spotlight. Your authority isn’t for you.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“Faithful leadership isn’t about sticking to your plans when you should abandon them. Instead, it’s about being willing to question them and be questioned in pursuit of them, then course correct where necessary. ”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“For God to be faithful, he cannot change. For us to be faithful, we must change.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“The question I have had to increasingly check myself with is, What if being faithful to your calling meant you had to say no to your loyalty?”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes

“You are never more like Jesus than when you are loving someone who is not loving you in return. That is gospel love.”
― Brandon Michael West, It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes