Jerry I. Porras famous quotes

04-17-2025

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Leadership #Passion #Together
For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Success #Real #Differences
Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Success #Loss #Winning
The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Success #Attention #Matter
Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Success #Running #What Matters
Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Adversity #Two #Challenges
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Moon #Journey #Doe
Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Successful #Issues #People
Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Commitment #Acceptance #May
Do or do not. There is no try," says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic.
-- Jerry I. Porras

#Stars #Father #War

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