I leave you the best phrases of Miguel Ángel Cornejo, Mexican motivator, writer and speaker specialized in the area of business leadership. The renowned speaker passed away in 2015 in Mexico City at the age of 69.
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Portrait of Miguel Ángel Cornejo. Source: Wikimedia Commons - Colegiomacr
-The greatest stellar moment of my life is knowing that I am the fruit of love, whose destiny is to love intensely and forever until the end.
-Failure does not mean defeat, it simply means that we have not yet succeeded.
-Daring is to launch yourself to succeed with perseverance until you reach the top.
-The leader must keep his feet on the ground and his gaze on the stars, to invent his future.
-The most creative ideas arise in the biggest crises.
-Between the reason and the heart, do what your heart should do, it is finally the most beautiful thing in our being, our own feeling.
-Give yourself time to read, it is the basis of knowledge.
-Giving is the greatest manifestation of power; he who serves dominates.
-Creativity is an act of faith; To create, you must first believe.
-The one who sees more than the others is a leader, the one who prophesies and predicts, the one who inspires and points with his arm raised, the one who is not satisfied with the possible, but with the impossible.
-The winner sees an opportunity near every obstacle; the loser sees two or three obstacles near every opportunity.
-In the quality of my decisions is the architecture of my own life.
-Learn to love yourself and you can love.
-If you bet on life a penny, life will pay you a penny.
-Give yourself time to laugh, so the loads are lighter.
-Don't criticize, don't preach, listen to emotions and don't listen to the words, be interested in the person.
-Good luck favors prepared minds.
-If you are waiting for a miracle for your life to be resolved, then you will wait the rest of your life, perhaps.
-Creativity is being a permanent discoverer of new problems.
-Today I will challenge every obstacle that comes my way with the faith that I will conquer.
-Failure does not mean discredit, but shows that we are willing to take the necessary risks to succeed.
-Today is the last opportunity I have to live intensely, because nobody assures me that tomorrow will dawn again.
-Give yourself time to dream, that is why the soul is close to the stars.
-Determination is the force that drives the leader not to stop in his fight, in fact, that is the gift that makes him invincible.
-If you are prepared and look for opportunities, you will have good luck.
-Teacher is one who makes his students dream of making the impossible possible.
-The leaders of excellence comply with a fundamental premise in the art of directing: "never ask a subordinate what they themselves are not capable of doing", they handle conscious attention and are the most demanding with themselves.
-The boss manages the people; the leader prepares it. The boss massifies people, turns them into numbers and tokens, dehumanizes them. The leader knows each of his collaborators, treats them as people, does not use them as things.
-Live with humility, learning from everyone and everything, because there will always be a better way of doing things.
-Revenge. Their greatest pleasure is the evil that can befall their enemies, they relentlessly seek to destroy them, they have specialized in devising the most aberrant ways to achieve their purposes.
-Pessimism. Aggressors of disaster seek to destroy hope, their attitude plunges people into bitterness, many disguise it with the low shield of "being realistic."
-To understand is to understand what we no longer need to forgive; To forgive is to understand the immensity of goodness; Kindness is generously giving what we keep in our hearts without limits.
-Failure does not mean that we will not reach our goals. Rather, it challenges us to pay the tuition of perseverance to achieve success.
-The risk of change: being a winner.
-Admiration is the capacity for astonishment that we show at the success of others. Envy is the deep pain that corrodes us and sickens us before the triumph of others.
-Daring is having the courage to sincerely say "I love you" and humbly ask for forgiveness when we offend.
-Trust is the cornerstone to build any relationship. Without it you cannot progress. It is one of the most sublime forms of motivation, it requires us to be patient in order to develop the full potential of our people.
-Failure does not mean stupidity. But the way to accumulate the wisdom necessary to succeed.
-Be assertive at all times, and if you make a mistake, correct immediately and take care not to make the same mistake. To be successful, it is vitally important to have great mental clarity.
-Daring is fulfilling a mission, betting our existence to serve our ideals, fighting every day to achieve a more humane and wonderful world.
-The leader of excellence makes his people feel the pride and satisfaction of his work, inspires his followers to high levels of achievement.
-Leaders must assign tasks that radiate a high degree of intrinsic motivation that justifies the effort to be made, the result to be achieved.
-To forgive when you have been offended and humiliated is when the greatness of the human heart is manifested.
-The only guarantee we have to preserve the beings we love is to never stop enchanting them with those little attentions that captivate the heart.
-Today I will invest my most important resource, my time, in my most transcendental work: my life, I will passionately perform every minute to make today a different and unique day in my life.
-The winner always has a program; the loser always has an excuse.
-Live with humility, learning from everyone and everything, because there will always be a better way of doing things.
-Ask yourself, who do you love? And decide to accept it as it is, and if not, stop tormenting it, free yourself and free it, love is above all acceptance and an altar to freedom.
-Search is a path that leads us to the daily surprise of something different, so at each dawn we must propose to discover something new; With this attitude, boredom will never overtake us and we will then maintain our capacity for wonder.
-Make creative combinations of what you know and you will have better results.
-A good leader is one who has based his life on higher order values, such as ethics, honesty, formality and determination, in short, many of the situations that characterize a world-class human being, a being extraordinary human.
-If you know how to live life without mistakes, it has been useless, because knowing how to live life is learning to make mistakes.
- Confidence is the way to progress, without it we could not aspire to higher stages. Trust engages, exalts and makes us believe in ourselves
-Keep that spark forever to illuminate your being forever, never stop searching and you can always find.
-The winner says "we can do it"; the loser says, "that's not my problem."
-Teacher is one who forges the intelligence and the will that makes the masterpiece that exists in each of his students emerge.
-I aspire to fulfillment, to be an idealist, a dreamer, optimist, ethical, tireless fighter for good, truth and love, fulfilling the mission that the creator placed in my heart.
-The challenge forms the winner, and there is no challenge without the risk of failure, because success and failure are a fabric of the same texture.
-When I discovered freedom and that I could decide my own life, releasing my past, my parents and my circumstances, I made the first decision of my life: to be the only one responsible for my existence.
-Committed leaders are free beings, since they have freely endeavored to produce a change: they have assumed responsibility for their project and its results.
-Pride. They themselves are the object of their greatest worship and admiration, no one deserves them, of course they believe they are superior to all mortals, their specialty is contempt and humiliation.
-Today I will have my feet on the ground understanding reality and looking at the stars to invent my future.
-Daring is having the courage to follow our inner call to fully realize our vocation.
-Being young means owning our life, our present and being willing to challenge our future; accept the circumstances without envy or protest; admit the wonder that we are and set out to conquer our own destiny.
-Daring to be free is daring to give freedom.
-The winner says "maybe it is difficult, but it is possible"; the loser says "it may be possible, but it's too difficult."
-Challenge is to remain haughty and defiant in the face of adversity and grateful in the face of victory; You don't have rivals to beat, because you are convinced that to succeed you don't need to defeat another; his greatest victory is the conquest of himself.
-The decision starts with action; leaders are committed to their dream and know that if they don't land it in concrete actions, it will never come true.
-In the vocabulary of the winner there is no word impossible, he lives with the certainty that everything he sets out to do will be achieved. It is only a matter of time, effort, strategy and commitment for the dream to finally become a reality.
-Today I will eliminate two days from my schedule: yesterday and tomorrow. Yesterday was to learn and tomorrow will be the consequence of what I can do today.
-Daring is living looking for beauty, enriching others, ourselves and creation.
-The winner is always part of the answer; the loser is always a part of the problem.
-We should not be chained by the failures of the past, nor should we torment ourselves with what the future holds, because we run the risk of not being successful in the present.
-Daring is to be optimistic, to be part of the resistance formed by extraordinary beings, who manage to build and advance.
-Being excellent is getting up every time you fail, with a spirit of learning and improvement.
-Failure does not mean that we have not achieved anything. It means that we have identified what we must not do to achieve our goals.
-Authentic leaders live their values, they are aware that no one can be happy if they live against their own convictions.
-The leader has a reason to live, he has managed to identify a cause to serve, he has found his existential meaning.
-Today I will have the audacity not to miss a single opportunity, my only alternative is to succeed.
-Blessed are those who know what they want, because they are the only ones who will know when they have arrived.
-Your search will be the passport to live without boredom, in continuous growth, with no limits other than those you want to impose on yourself, on an endless path, a path of light that will never leave your spirit in darkness.
-The service produces satisfaction and creates need, makes us indispensable.
-Deconstructive criticism. They do not criticize to build but seek to humiliate and ridicule, they believe that if they cause pain the other will change.
-In the face of ambition and the abuse of others, my only defense shield was my own innocence.
-Envy. They do not tolerate the success of others, deep down they admire them but cannot recognize it, they fervently want them to lose what they have.
-The winner always sees an answer for any problem; the loser always sees a problem in every answer.
-The leaders of excellence are aware that authentic love is self-sufficient and they have given themselves unconditionally to fight for their dreams.
-Today I will make of each ordinary task a sublime expression, demonstrating at every moment the greatness of my being.
-Give yourself time to think, it is the source of power.
-Unique and singular is my attitude, it makes me different and I treat each person as unique, singular and unrepeatable.
-Daring is dreaming with open eyes and fighting until our fantasies come true.
-We acquire the magic of change, having a dream, believing in it and fighting for it.