Alinka Rutkowska > Quotes

“Nobody has the power to make you unhappy. Only you decide how happy you want to be.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, Maya & Filippo Look for Happiness in Tauranga

“When you can feel the feeling of having what you want, the thing that you want is not far away.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, Maya & Filippo Look for Whales

“Collaborative leadership is one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, forms of leadership. Teams and other leaders are motivated because they are involved and invested in the collective outcome, and there is little to no concern of “credit” or “control” because the whole team owns the result.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, Luminary Leadership: How Top Entrepreneurs Lead in Business and in Life

“When I say “professionally edited,” I don’t mean that your high school classmate who was good at English did it for you.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, How I Sold 80,000 Books: Book Marketing for Authors

“On my early journey, I feel like I tried all the jobs. I picked blueberries by the bucket and manned the salad bar at the local pizza joint. I answered the phones and dialed for dollars, configured the technology system, designed training classes, and taught them. At one point, I ran the diskette duplication machine and packaged and sealed packs of diskettes (yes, that used to be a thing). I managed a restaurant and ran promotions to get more customers in on the weekends. I grew up with a firm belief that anything I wanted to do, I could learn. And so I did.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, Luminary Leadership: How Top Entrepreneurs Lead in Business and in Life