14 Quotes & Sayings By Christopher Babson

Christopher Babson is the Henry Salvatorian Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He has published more than 100 articles for academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Financial Management. He has delivered more than 2,000 lectures in over 30 countries. He is the author of books including Capitalism: A Love Story (with Bill Bonner), The New CEO Conference Handbook (with William R Read more

Kerr), and The One Minute Millionaire.

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or...
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There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue. Christopher Babson
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Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you. Christopher Babson
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Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires, but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs. Christopher Babson
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Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life? Christopher Babson
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Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past. Christopher Babson
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Be careful what you look for and expect in life, because you will either find it or create it. Christopher Babson
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Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others. Christopher Babson
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Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack. Christopher Babson
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The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying Christopher Babson
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If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why), that is exactly where you will end up. Christopher Babson
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If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. Christopher Babson
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Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice, Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny’s arms. Christopher Babson
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Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us. Christopher Babson