Winners Dream Quotes

“In the long run, our customers are going to determine whether we have a job or whether we do not. Their attitude toward us is going to be the factor determining our success.”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“if a vision is not supported by the workforce, even the most brilliant ideas risk being nothing more than lightbulbs in a basket”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“Winning was the process, not the destination. A journey of striving to be better—to be kinder, more compassionate, hungrier, more humble, more audacious, more inspiring, more rigorous—that was what turned me on, what inspired me. The quest was the best.”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“Value Engineering and the Top 20 Call were two critical methodologies that helped our sales culture develop a cadence; a beautiful rhythm of preparation and rigor.”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“A goal was a number. An outcome. A dream was something grander. More”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“To be a winner. 2. To lead others to the doorstep of their dreams. 3. To manage a career and not the other way around. 4. To never confuse that which is most important with that which is not. 5. To earn a living commensurate with my talent, but not be ruled by the shallow shadows of money. 6. To be the ruler of my own destiny, not to slave for what someone else wants my destiny to be—in control.”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“if a company focused on “understanding what customers need and delivering it,” revenue growth and a high market valuation would follow. I was intrigued. Tom and I first met at”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

“lesson.” Powell explained: Reagan was the president, and as head of the National Security Agency, Powell was responsible for handling the minor details. In his remaining time working for him, Powell never upwardly delegated a problem like that to the president again. Instead, he and his team solved the problems they had been hired to solve. My take on the episode was that leaders must trust that the people to whom”
― Bill McDermott, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office