Ian Berry's Words to Live by eBook

Words To Live By an ebook by Ian Berry CSP FAIM

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“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” Sopho cles ( 496—406 496—406 BC)

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“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” Samuel J ohnson

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“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.” Buddhist saying

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“Always “Always remember you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.” Margaret Mead

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“To “To take responsibility for our own feelings, thoughts, and actions, and not attach them to what other people feel, think and do, is the first step to freedom.”

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“When a ship misses a harbour, it’s not usually the harbours fault.” Janet Lapp

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“By definition, the full expression of one’s potential demands taking total responsibility or ownership. If it did not, it would not be one’s own potential, it would be partly someone else’s.” John W hitmore hitmor e

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“A responsible choice is a choice that takes into account the consequences of each of your choices. In order to make a responsible choice you must ask yourself, yourself, for each choice c hoice you are considering, what will this produce? Do I really want want to create that? that? Am I ready to accept all of the consequences of this choice?” Gary Zuka Zuka v

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“Everyday we are faced with numerous decisions and choices. And try as we may, we often don’t choose the thing that we know is good for us. Part of this is related to the fact that the right choice is often the difficult one – the one that involves some sacrifice of our pleasure.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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“Most people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

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“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Oscar Osc ar W ilde

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“Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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“The only way to discover the limits of the possible, is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Ar thur C. Clarke

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“I’ve found that if you concentrate on purpose, the detail tends to handle itself.” Jeffrey Gitomer

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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ignorance .” Derek Bok

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“Profit is not a reason for being in business; profit is a result of being good at business.” business.”


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“Determine your unifying principles in life and resolve to live by them.” Brian Tracy

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“Statements about values on walls are useless unless the words live in our hearts and we demonstrate them by our actions.”


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“Having a continuous attitude of gratitude is the first step to emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and universal well-being.”


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“Leadership is not a right – it’s a responsibility.” John Maxwell

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

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Leadership is the art of inspiring people to bring everything remarkable that they are to everything they do. Leadership falters without management however. Management is the science of making it easy for people to bring everything remarkable that they are to everything they do.


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“People are developed the same way gold is mined. Several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold. But you don’t go into the the mine looking for dirt. You go in looking for gold.” gold.” Andrew Carnegie

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“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W . Buechner

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“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. peopl e.” ” Old Chinese Chines e P roverb

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“Technology “Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.“ P atricia Fripp

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“The customer is whoever gets your work next “ Karou Kar ou I shikow shi kow a

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“When your customer wins you can’t lose.“ Jack Collis

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“If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.“ Jim Rohn

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“It is not your customer’s job to remember you, it is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.“ P atricia Fripp

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“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph W aldo Emerson Emerson

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“The magnet principle says ‘like attracts like.’ like.’ You’ll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.” Mark Victor Hansen

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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry”. Martin Luther King King Jr.

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“A good team is a co-operative unit best served by the contributions of a critical mass of players who display, exhibit and support the common goals of the group.” Ric Charlesw Charlesw orth

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“Apart “Apart from fundamentalism, believing and behaving as if our way is the only way, the biggest problem in the world today is low self-esteem.”


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“The keys to successful relationships are honesty and openness. As soon as we hold hold back or hide hide our true feelings and thoughts, we have opened the door to deceit. It is all down hill from there.” there.”


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“Most of us tend to suffer from ‘agenda anxiety’, the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.” Nido Qubein

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“The best three phrases I know for living a good life are, please, thank you, and I love you.”


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“Failure to be a hero in our own homes first means we are never likely to be truly followed by anyone else.”


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“Home is that place which, when you go there, they have to let you in.” Robert Frost

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“I am never amazed by the incredible capacity of the human spirit. I am always in awe.” awe.”


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“Inherent in every desire is the means to achieve it “ Deepak Chopra

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“However wanted or unwanted your present circumstances may be, they function as needed feedback so that you can know the current status of the result you are creating. Robert Fritz

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“I learned this, at least, by experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau

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“Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn

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“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For indeed, that’s all who ever have.” Margaret Mead

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“I have one wish for you all. Be remarkable. It’s the beginning of peace and the end of war.”


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“Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain

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“It isn’t enough to be good at your job. You have to be good to the world. Janet Holmes a Court

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“Each person is a one-of-a-kind. Our obligation is to be the best we can be.”


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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is a though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” miracle.” Albert Einstein Einst ein

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“You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?” George Bernard Shaw

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Introducing Ian Berry CSP FAIM Strategic advisor to difference makers; professional speaker

Ian Berry is the CEO of Remacue® a global community of advisors with unique expertise in the art and science of employee engagement that guarantees productivity improvements and profit increases. The author of two books and a contributing author to three more, Ian is a leading authority on the journey from information to insight to inspiration to ideas to innovation. Ian hold the CSP (Certified Professional Speaker) designation, the highest level available to professional speakers internationally. internationally. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Ian talks about The significance significance of a simple yet profound strategy strategy - why strategic planning is an oxymoron, what has replaced it, and how to guarantee strategy gets executed. What real leaders do and fake ones don t - why self leadership leadership and management management precede successful leading and managing for others, how to lead and manage both self and for others at the same time. !

No more people problems - why appraisals appraisals don t work and what to do instead, how to performance lead and manage on the go, how to create creat e simple systems that fully support people in performing at their best on a consistent basis. !

Tomorrow today, the future for business - why corporate social responsibility is not a fad or just philanthropy, and how to achieve a five-fold bottom line that can guarantee profitable sustainability. sustainability. The remarkable rewards of resilience - drawing on his experience of recovering from life threatening illness, Ian explores the least most talked about talent of the modern leadermanager, resilience, and how to be resilient in all facets of life. “We spoke about your presentation afterwards and the overwhelming view is that it was the best presentation, in terms of style and content, that we have ever had for our group.” group.” Craig Walden, CEO, Australian Public Service Benevolent Society Ltd and Member The CEO Institute “Ian Berry is a First Class speaker. I would highly recommend him. He speaks about appraisals, job descriptions and how to dispense with them, and other things that really motivate people.” Brian Churnett, Founder and Chairman, Academy for Chief Executives, United Kingdom “We have had some great presentations at our breakfasts, and your presentation was one of the very best ever.” Malcolm White, Managing Director Dir ector,, Communicat

Ian Berry s career as a strategic advisor and professional speaker began in 1990 and followed a highly successful successful career in financial services. His unique presentation packages and strategic advice challenge the mind, stir the heart, and inspire you to feel, think, be, and do like you never have before. Ian is is regarded regarded by many many as Australia Australia s most engaging and inspiring business speaker. !

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Ian Berry's Words to Live by eBook

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