Improve your present job and take on more tasks.
When a man is on top of his job, he is ready for a bigger one.
The technique of assuming responsibilities uses all other techniques discussed in this book.
Give more than is demanded.
Stretch your stature.
Don't let yourself be taken for granted, but don't hard-sell your accomplishments.
The easy way is the way of insecurity.
It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. - J. R. Miller
It has been said that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The tragedy of this adage lies in the fact that power too often stirs the desire for greater power-power for no reason other than a perverted desire to exercise it. The hunger of some men for power seems never to end. Seneca epitomized it when he said, "He who is too powerful, still continues to aim at that degree of power which is unattainable." It is reasonable to assume that when a man thus seeks power for its own sake he will not be concerned with decency in its employment. - Martin Panzer
The only way in which any businessman can hope to achieve anything remotely approaching lasting success is by striving constantly to achieve success in everything he at tempts, and by building new and greater successes on the foundations provided by old ones. - J. Paul Getty
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. - Andrew Carnegie
Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. There is no work so rude, that he may not exalt it; no work so impassive, that he may not breathe a soul into it; no work so dull that he may not enliven it. - Henry Giles
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men. - Bruce Barton
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze our selves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass our selves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly exceed them. - Thomas J, Watson, Sr.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford
Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and ninety-five per cent on what he does, with emphasis on the does. The years that lie ahead will be no bed of roses for any business man. No matter how high the tide of prosperity may rise, no business man will share therein who does not gear himself and his business to a new tempo to meet changing conditions and the problems and difficulties that await our solution. - James A. Worsham
Worry and responsibility are part of the price of power. Real power does not lie in documents and memos outlining terms of reference and areas of jurisdiction; it lies in what can be achieved in practice. The boss's secretary can wield great power, like the King's mistress, without any real authority at all. Equally, the head of a big division or company can be powerless, just as Lear was powerless, despite any number of theoretical powers. Power lies in the acceptance of the chief's authority by others; their knowledge that if they try to resist, they will fail and he will succeed. - Anthony Jay
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to the man who knows how. - Elbert Hubbard
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. - C. C. Colton
