David Cottrell Quotes

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life
caring and sharing
that cannot be learned or purchased.

People quit people before they quit companies.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others
while giving the best of yourself.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices.

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.

Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.