Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!”
Success and the leadership needed to achieve it often start with a dream and desire to do better. Actually achieving success is connected to opportunity.
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
To those outside of business ownership, opportunities appear to just present themselves. However, success wanes if that business rests.
“Generosity isn’t sacrificing yourself—it’s helping others without harming yourself.”
Success doesn’t lay in self-sacrifice, it’s found in caring for others while taking care of yourself: your customers can tell.
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
As safety evolves within our organizations, many leaders still question how safety fits within the construct so that it is a viable, sustainable and productive part of the organization.
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
When a problem occurs, leaders tend to rush to solve the problem. What may seem like a time-saving, position-affirming tactic many times leads to other issues.
“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
It’s better to recognize what’s going well, why, and engage to continually improve: nothing’s ignored and success is shared.
“A habit must be established before it can be improved!”
The stumbles along the way create opportunities. Eventually, a formula, or habit, that works for the leader emerges.
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
Mistakes will be made, undue risks taken; however, guiding a better organization is the role of safety.
“Working scared is never anything someone should be expected to do.”
Organizational systems, and within the safety systems, are designed to get work done efficiently and productively to achieve mission and share success: one thing they should never induce is fear.
“You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems”
Goals are set to provide a focus for the systems to achieve, but if barriers remain, the risk to perform is increased.