Tim S. Grover Quotes Page 2

“Cleaners do the hardest things first, just to show there’s no task too big.”

“Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long therm payoff.”

“Cleaners have a dark side, and a zone you can’t enter. They get what they want, but they pay for it in solitude. Excellence is lonely.

They never stop working, physically or mentally, because it gives them too much time to think about what they’ve had to endure and sacrifice to get to the top.”

“Cleaners never feel external pressure; they only believe what’s inside them. You can criticize, analyze, demonize a Cleaner, but he’s still only going to feel pressure from within.

He knows what he’s doing right, and what he’s doing wrong. He does not care what you think. He steps out of his comfort zone and challenges himself to get to the next level.”

“Cleaners sacrifice the rest to get what they want the most.”

“Cleaners understand they don’t have to love the work to be successful; they just have to be relentless about achieving it, and everything else in between is a diversion and a distraction from the ultimate prize.”

“Complete focus for complete results.”

“Crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.”

“Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.”

“Do the work every day! You have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.

Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing.”

“Do you truly want to get even with everyone, or do you really want to get ahead of them? Why stand next to anyone when you can push beyond them?

In the game of basketball, you get around someone so you can get past them. Play this game the same way. You go for the win, you don’t settle for a tie.”

“Don’t tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don’t.”

“Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they’ve hit their target, they’re already stalking their next conquest.”

“Every minute that you sit around trying to figure out what to do, someone else is already doing it. Make a choice or a choice will be made for you.

A Cleaner makes decisions because there’s no chance in the world he’s going to let anyone else make a decision for him.”

“Every time you think you can’t, you have to do it anyway.”

“F*ck 'try'. Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, “If I fail, it’s not my fault, I tried...”

“Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.”

“From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level, you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.”

“Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.”

“Good things come to those who work.”

“Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.”

“Have the confidence to trust that you can handle anything.”

“He never sees problems, only situations to resolve, and when he finds the solution, he doesn’t waste time explaining it. He just says, 'I got this'.”

“He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough.”

“Here’s the key: I’m not going to tell you how to change. People don’t change. I want you to trust who you already are, and get to that zone where you can shut out all the noise, all the negativity and fear and distractions and lies, and achieve whatever you want, in whatever you do.”

“I don’t care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are — you can improve, and you will.

Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more.

You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, 'Done', your instincts say, 'Next'.”

“I don’t understand the concept of failure. If you don’t succeed at everything you do on your first attempt, does that mean you ‘failed’? Isn’t it a good thing that you keep coming back and working at it until you succeed? How can that be a failure?”

“I’m not telling you to love it. I’m telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.”

“If you had a bad night and you can’t show up the next day ready to go, or you can’t show up at all, that doesn’t affect just you, it affects everyone around you. A professional doesn’t let other people down just because of personal issues.

If you need to show up, you show up. You might detest every individual in the room, but if your presence makes them all feel better, if it pulls the team together, if it results in better performances, then you’ve helped yourself to get one step closer to your own goal.

That’s how you get others to come up to your level: show them where it is, and set the example that allows them to get there.”

“If you start with someone average, someone with limited expectations, everything is an improvement.”