25 Sadhguru Quotes on Leadership, Business & Success

Leading up to INSIGHT 2018, here are 25 quotes from Sadhguru on what it means to be a leader, the meaning of success, and the essence of business.

Sadhguru Quotes on Being a Leader

1. As a leader, your every thought, emotion, and action impacts many lives. It’s extremely important to work on how you are within yourself.
2. Being a leader does not mean dominating the situation. It means empowering people to do what they would not have imagined possible.
3. Unless a leader displays an infectious level of inspiration, sloth and inertia will prevail.
4. As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them. 

Sadhguru Quotes on Leadership

1. Leadership should be free of gender. Do not look at a leader as a man or a woman. Look at them for the qualities they exude.
2. Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership.
3. Leadership is not assertion of yourself. Leadership is the art of fulfilling the aspirations of everyone.
4. Leadership should not be an aspiration. It should be a consequence of competence.
5. Leadership means partnership, cooperation, mentoring, and support. It does not mean dominance. Dominance is tyranny.

Sadhguru Quotes on Business/Commerce 

1. Commerce should serve, not lead humanity.
2. When you earn people’s love and respect by how you love and respect them, it not only enriches your business – it enriches your life.
3. Whatever kind of business you are into, ultimately, there is only one business, that is human wellbeing.

Sadhguru Quotes on Work-Life

1. If instead of working up your desires, you enhance your capabilities, you will walk through this life effortlessly, gracefully, doing very well.
2. What is possible and what is not is not your business. Nature will decide this. Your business is just to work for what truly matters to you.
3. You need to look at why you want a break from work. If you were doing something that you truly care about, would you want a break?
4. Whatever work needs to be done, whatever opportunity comes your way, whatever you have to share – this is the time, not tomorrow.
5. Only those who work intensely will know the profoundness of restfulness.
6. No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
7. Qualifications only give you entry. It is competence that ultimately works.

Sadhguru Quotes on Success

1. Anyone who has built anything successful knows there is no perfect way – it is a constant juggle.
2. People are successful not necessarily because they work hard. They just do the right thing.
3. What is generally considered as failure deepens your experience of life far more than what you consider as success.
4. If your idea of success is just about being ahead of others, you will definitely not explore the full potential of who you are.
5. If you want to enjoy success, before you engineer situations, first of all you have to engineer yourself.
6. If you want success, the foremost thing is to ensure that you are not the obstacle to it.

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