Jon Gordon Quotes

#1. If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?

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#2. Jon and I talked several times on the phone about the state of the Falcons' organization and it became very clear that if I was going to turn this team around, the first step would be to focus on transforming the culture.

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#3. Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

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#4. The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.

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#5. Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

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#6. one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team.

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#7. After all, every team in the league has the same goals so it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, one game at a time, that will define your season.

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#8. It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

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#9. Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.

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#10. If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

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#11. Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

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#12. Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work,

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#13. It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.

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#14. Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

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#15. Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

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#16. Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently.

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#17. Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

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#18. Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.

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#19. To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

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#20. Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.

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#21. You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time.

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#22. Being positive won't guarantee you'll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won't.

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#23. Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

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#24. When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

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#25. To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.

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#26. I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

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#27. The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination - as late as possible - with a smile on your face, because this would mean that you truly enjoyed the ride.

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#28. knowing how they want to be remembered helps them decide how to live today, and leaving a legacy will give them a purpose that will unleash their passion.

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#29. As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

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#30. To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own.

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#31. Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

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#32. Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus
on your positive energy and kill them with kindness.
Energy vampires are no match for your positive energy.

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#33. Jon had often told me that if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.

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#34. Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride.

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#35. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

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#36. The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

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#37. If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.

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#38. The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

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#39. You win by cultivating the right culture, leadership, expectations, beliefs, mindset, relationships, and habits before you even play the game. You win in the locker room first. Then, you win on the field.

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#40. Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

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#41. In life you have a choice between two roads. The positive road and the negative road. The positive road will lead to enhanced health, happiness, and success and the negative road will lead to misery, anger, and failure.

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#42. The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

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#43. You haven't failed until you stop trying.

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#44. You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

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#45. I'm an over-believer.

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#46. Sometimes we have to see what we don't want, to know what we do want.

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#47. Optimism is a competitive advantage.

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#48. When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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#49. Never a bad day, only bad moments.

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#50. Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

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#51. Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

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#52. Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.

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#53. It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything.

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#54. Love is the answer for the team's success.

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#55. Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

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#56. The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus you won't have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on.

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#57. A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.

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#58. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.

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#59. Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

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#60. No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

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#61. We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

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#62. Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.

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#63. You want to be a passionate leader who makes decisions that are based on belief and principle over those that are based on feeling.

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#64. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.

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#65. You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.

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#66. One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

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#67. Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.

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#68. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

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#69. When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

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#70. So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

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#71. it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,

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#72. The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future.

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#73. My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

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#74. In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.

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#75. Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.

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#76. Love the process and you'll love what the process produces.

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#77. The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

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#78. Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

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#79. I see you resting and learning. I see you getting stronger. I see you preparing for greater things so you can take your life and business to a higher level. Always remember that our biggest battle comes before our greatest victory.

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#80. Failure is not meant to be final and fatal ... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

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#81. Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

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#82. Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits and habits create the future.

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#83. Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

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#84. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.

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#85. I knew the biggest priority was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel. This meant we would not only have to create the right culture for the team but also for the rest of the organization.

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#86. Jeff built a culture that was defined by a blue-collar work ethic (symbolized by a hard hat), as well as selflessness, teamwork, relentless effort, and continuous improvement.

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#87. Often the difference between success and failure is belief.

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#88. Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.

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#89. I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. - Abraham Lincoln sixteenth

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#90. Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

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#91. Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

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#92. Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!

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#93. You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

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#94. You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

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