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Jeffrey Benjamin

If you don't ask, you rarely get.

Topic: Communication, Goals
Location: Lake Tahoe
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A person that relies on title and not performance isn't a true leader. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Listening to an idea you disagree with makes you wise. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Listening Wisdom

Great teachers learn from students. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Knowledge Learning Wisdom

When you are accountable, you are incredible. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Contrast is the pinnacle of freedom. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Diversity Freedom

Telling a person they cannot speak cancels your opinion. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership Listening Speech Truth

Excuses have no merit when you are committed. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Integrity disappears when you deny what is right. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Accountability Integrity

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership Self-esteem

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Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. — Miguel de Cervantes

The mouth does not eat if the feet do not walk and the hands work. — African Proverb

Action Desire Responsibility Work

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. — Nelson Mandela

Courage Forgiveness Peace

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition. — Martha Washington

Accountability Confidence

Everything worth having has a definite price. — Napoleon Hill

Action Goals Life

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. — Voltaire

Action Kindness

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him. — German Proverb

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Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. — Native American Proverb

Communication Listening

One kind word can warm three winter months. — Japanese Proverb

Appreciation Communication Gratitude

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed. — African Proverb

Acceptance Communication

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Communication Speech

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. — Mohandas Gandhi

Communication Conflict Listening Negotiation Persuasion Society

The one who listens is the one who understands. — African Proverb

Communication Listening

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between senses and the mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Awareness Communication Perception Strength

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Action Communication Reputation

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Communication Public Speaking Speech

A smile costs nothing, but yields huge dividends. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Optimism

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell

Communication Discovery Networking Society Team

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

› Winston Churchill

Communication Freedom Honor Hope

If you can't resolve your problems in peace, you can't solve war. — Egyptian Proverb

Communication Conflict Negotiation Peace

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. — St. Jerome

Communication Listening Speech

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. — Benjamin Franklin

Communication Peace Speech

A man's ruin lies in his tongue. — Egyptian Proverb

Communication Listening Speech

The talker sows, the listener reaps. — Italian Proverb

Communication Listening Speech

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. — Mark Twain

Communication Speech

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A person's name to them is the sweetest sound in any language. — Dale Carnegie

Communication Customer Service

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

› Ethiopian Proverb

Communication Conflict Peace

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

Appreciation Communication compliment Kindness

Complaining gets in the way of gaining. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Life

Content makes poor men rich; discontent rich men poor. — Benjamin Franklin

Choice Decision Goals

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent van Gogh

Awareness Communication Goals Networking Team

You choose your path. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Accountability Choice Goals Leadership Purpose Reputation Vision

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. — Booker T. Washington

Goals Obstacles

The great danger of most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

Confidence Fear Goals Purpose Vision

Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here. — Mark Twain

Dreams Goals Life

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. — Victor Hugo

Dreams Goals Purpose Vision

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. — George Eliot

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals Life Purpose

Your free will lies in the directing of your attention. — Emmet Fox

Goals Imagination Purpose Thinking

Tall oaks from little acorns grow. — Latin Proverb

Action Goals Purpose Vision

You cannot fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. — Abraham Lincoln

Determination Failure Goals Purpose Success

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. — Maxwell Maltz

Adversity Goals Happiness Obstacles

Do what you don't want to do so you can enjoy the things you want. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Discipline Goals

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affirmation Choice Communication Goals Purpose Self Self-esteem Speech Vision

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. — Napoleon Hill

Defeat Goals Planning

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. — Amelia Earhart

Adventure Goals Planning Preparation

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. — Helen Keller

Goals Stress Victory

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

› Benjamin Franklin

Goals Peace Purpose

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. — Henry James

Action Goals Time

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

› W. Clement Stone

Focus Goals Purpose

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln

Focus Goals Purpose

Better reap two days too soon than one too late. — Dutch Proverb

Business Goals Life Planning Preparation Purpose Vision Visualize

It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott

Customer Service Goals

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