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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

If we don't own our manhood someone else will.

If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

If you are godly it has been because you have been made godly.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves.

If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

If you listen to your people they'll tell you what's important.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

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

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.