Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
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To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?
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Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...
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Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.
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Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
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While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
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You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.
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There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.
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Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
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Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.
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Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded
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The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
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Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
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Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection
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If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.
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Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.
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Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.
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A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at
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Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence
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It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.
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You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.
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Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.
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Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets
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Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.
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In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.
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Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity
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Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
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All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
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