Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every single day.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.

You should be proud of what you're doing, but not conceited. If you can't be proud of yourself, you're a failure. And discipline. To do anything in life you have to have discipline. To accomplish anything, you have a goal, challenge yourself, and work until you accomplish that goal. Practice what you preach.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

There's always things that I can improve on.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

It's just like, you make a goal list - you write your goals down, you check it off once you get there and you make a new one.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.