Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
Interpretation
Building strong relationships yields lasting benefits in life and success.
The quote emphasizes the importance of nurturing and investing time in relationships, suggesting that the connections we create with others provide significant, long-term rewards in both personal and professional aspects of life. Just as a financial investment can grow over time, so too can the time and effort put into developing meaningful relationships enhance our overall happiness and success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of networking, I shared this quote to highlight how relationships can lead to opportunities.
When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.
Champions behave like champions before they are champions
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.
The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
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