1,638 Quotes About Values

Developing a strategic plan—complete with cascading goals—is hard work. But it can energize you, your team, and provide focus for all your work together.

Weekly planning allows you the flexibility to work around inevitable interruptions and the focus to keep moving your most important goals forward. As you build this habit of the weekly review into your life, the repetition will keep prioritizing your most important goals and relationships.

Your personal style, mission, and values can be found in the overlay of hardwiring, identity, and goals. And when all of these qualities work together in you, you find integrity at your career.

Whichever your personal style, you can be an excellent leader. Being aware of your natural style can help you stand between a situation and your response.

Core values live where identity and goals overlap—they touch into who you are at your depths and how you express what is important to you through your actions. Take the time to start identifying what you value and communicate that and your company’s values through all levels of your organization.

Personal mission touches into the fundamental ways you operate and your professional and life goals. Developing even a rudimentary sense of your mission helps you navigate the pressures of leading. It acts like a compass, something you can check in on, to see if you’re still on track.

A business is a value creation and distribution process. Before you can sell value to your customers, you have to first create it.

Value is not always visible. Sometimes, it’s invisible and intangible.

Real growth comes only after the dark night of the soul, when they feel they don’t have what it takes and choose to persist, to reflect on themselves, learn from their mistakes, and struggle to apply what they’ve learned.