Mark Miller Quotes

#1. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

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#2. The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

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#3. The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

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#4. To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.-Mark Miller

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#5. If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

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#6. Leaders are dealers in hope.

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#7. Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

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#8. Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here?
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#9. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

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#10. Expecting the best is not about always being right. It is about a belief in yourself and in your team.

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#11. When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

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#12. If your heart is not right, no one cares about your skills.

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#13. You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.

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#14. The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

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#15. We do not see with our eyes nor with our minds, we only see through the feelings of our Emotions.-Mark Miller

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#16. The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

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#17. When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

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#18. Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,

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#19. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

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#20. There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

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#21. Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

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#22. You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.

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#23. Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

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#24. You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

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#25. Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity.
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#26. If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

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#27. Title doesn't make someone a leader - and the absence of a title shouldn't keep someone from leading.

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#28. When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

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#29. When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

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#30. Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

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#31. To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you.-Mark Miller

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#32. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

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