Mark Sanborn > Quotes

“We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“Don't confuse activity with action.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do

“No man can become rich without himself enriching others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“The only thing better than an acknowledgement is action.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“Faithfully doing your best, independent of the support, acknowledgment, or reward of others, is a key determinant in a fulfilling career.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

“The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“Genuine, authentic leadership infuses meaning into your life, because you know that your efforts count and that you are serving the needs of others as well as your own.”
― Mark Sanborn, You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference

“Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0

“position never determines performance, ultimately performance determines position in life.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor

“Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“Love is the commitment to treat a person with dignity and kindness regardless of how you feel about him or her.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

“Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor

“To a business, ordinary is poison, extraordinary the antidote.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Intention Imperative: 3 Essential Changes That Will Make You a Successful Leader Today

“Good leaders make heroes of others.”
― Mark Sanborn

“You don't need a title to be a leader in life. And the simple fact of having a title won't make you a leader.”
― Mark Sanborn

“Leadership is about movement and growth.”
― Mark Sanborn

“All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.”
― Mark Sanborn, You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference

“Leadership always benefits the greater good.”
― Mark Sanborn

“When people feel that their contributions are unappreciated, they will stop trying. And when that happens, innovation dies.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

“The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.”
― Mark Sanborn, You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference

“The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?”
― Mark Sanborn

“Make each day your masterpiece. —JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor

“reinventing”
― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results

“You are the spark that sets others on fire when you initiate.”
― Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary