Following your passion is a gift that keeps on giving.  And the dividends are in many forms; monetary, prestige, peace of mind and inspiring others to take the path least take.

Integrity is a value that is universal.  It can also be a measured by your actions and being authentic.  Warren Buffett can be held up as a success in all areas measurable, including his own.  Not just the obvious wealth he has accumulated.  Integrity is one of the three values Mr. Buffett cares about when hiring in his organizations.   He demonstrates that value in his personal life and is consistent in how his children will earn their wealth, rather than be given a typical percentage of his estate.  He has made sure that they are not waiting for their inheritance, but rather making their own mark on the world.

Warren Buffett also professes the importance of integrity in every hiring decision at Berkshire Hathaway and other successful companies he leads.

“We hire for intelligence, energy and integrity.  If you have intelligence and energy, but not integrity, the other two don’t matter.”

He has also formed non-profits to give fortunes back to others less fortunate.  A man to be admired from any perspective.

Brene Brown at TedX 2010 on Vulnerability and the Whole Heart

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn.

“Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.”

Warren Buffett

“…work for whom you admire the most. Don’t take jobs just because they look good on your resume. That’s like saving sex for your old age.”

Warren Buffett

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

Mark Twain

“Whatever you believe you will experience”

“If you believe you can or you believe you can not, you are right”

Henry Ford

The Man in the Arena, by Theodore Roosevelt and Daring Greatly

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Teddy Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris, April 23, 1910

“Give a man a fish and he is fed for a day.

Teach a man how to fish and he is fed for a lifetime.”

~Proverb

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”  I’d like to add a corollary, “It helps to pay attention to the signposts.”

~Dave Brock

 

“People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but People will never forget how you made them feel.”

~Maya Angelou

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.  The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives.  It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”  ~Andrew Carnegie