The real secret of success is in expecting pressure yet learning how to take it without losing emotional balance. Promotions in most cases come because of a subordinate's sympathetic understanding of his superior's problems. Possessed of this quality, instead of excessive self-centeredness, the successful candidates for promotion have developed their boss's confidence in their ability to take increased pressure at the next higher level. - Walter E. Elliott
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.- John D. Rockefeller
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn
I've never known of an instance in the history of our company where an executive unloaded responsibilities and duties on one lower in the ranks, that he did not find himself immediately loaded from above with greater responsibilities.- Arthur F. Hall
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. - Joseph Fort Newton
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. - William S. Halsey
In a sense a foreman, department head, superintendent, sales manager or officer of a company has many of the responsibilities of a president or the owner of a business, even though the area of responsibility is smaller. As an individual, to be successful he must employ the same basic principles that are necessary for success in the job he has; also in preparation for the promotion he would like to achieve. And this is true of a salesman, office employee or laborer.- W. Clement Stone
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. - Samuel Goldwyn
There is a single reason why ninety-nine out of one hundred average business men never become leaders. That is their unwillingness to pay the price of responsibility. By the price of responsibility I mean hard driving, continual work... the courage to make decisions, to stand the gaff . . . the scourging honesty of never fooling yourself about yourself. You travel the road to leadership heavily laden. While the nine-to-five-o'clock worker takes his ease, you are "toiling upward through the night." Laboriously you extend your mental frontiers. Any new effort, the psychologists say, wears a new groove in the brain. And the grooves that lead to the heights are not made between nine and five. They are burned in by midnight oil. - Owen D. Young
I discovered at an early age that most of the differences between average people and top people could be explained in three words. The top people did what was expected of them-and then some. They were thoughtful of others, they were considerate, and then some. They met their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They were good friends to their friends, and then some. They could be counted on in an emergency, and then some. - A Retired Executive
We are told by some that we are slaves. If being a slave means doing only what we have to do, then most of us are in truth slaves, but he who does more than he is required to do becomes at once free. He is his own master. How often do we hear it said, "It was not my work." Too often we fix our minds almost entirely upon what we are going to get and give no thought at all as to what we are going to give in return. - A. W. Robertson
