Kevin Harrington Quotes

There is only one path to making good decisions—first making bad ones.

Helicopter parenting is a big problem today. We never want our children to fail, and we’ll do almost anything to prevent it from happening. In doing so, we are allowing them to take that elevator to top, only to have them find out later that, in the real world, there is no elevator to success. We don’t allow our children to take the stairs, neglecting the fact that we won’t be around forever to pick them up when they fall, or to keep them from falling altogether. When they have to climb the stairs themselves, their legs don’t have the strength.

you are far more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Too often we go through the motions of life without stopping to ask, Why are we doing this?

how I can be more of the dad that they want me to be, it became quite obvious to me that I had the reputation of being a workaholic and that they didn’t have my undivided attention.

Do you want to be held accountable? Tell your kids that you want to be all in, focused on them when you put them to bed at night, and if you look at your phone, give them permission to take it away from you or even penalize you in some way.

Families, for the most part, just don’t plan—we didn’t. They don’t plan to be successful,

the only path to the one-hundred-million-dollar idea was through numerous failures.

the notion of making their idea perfect, when the truth is there is no such thing as a perfect idea.

So many of them never have an on-purpose, intentional, scheduled family meeting—ever.

We’re not an accident. We were put here for a reason.

My wife and I now want our children to experience failure because that’s where the growth is—in the struggle.

When nothing is going good, do something good for someone else.

If I have one regret, it’s that I didn’t plant the seed that God gave us a dream team when he put this family together. Even though I got pretty good at leaning into the strengths of my kids, I’m doing it with my adult children more now than I ever did in the past because I understand their strengths more and can help them set themselves up for success.

The difference between families that think they are a dream team and those that actually operate as one is whether or not they are comfortable letting the right members step up to do the things they’re uniquely wired to do. When that happens, the family can be extraordinary at so many things because the right people are in place to get things done.

What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.

The driver had been bringing in two full kegs, and then wheeling one empty and one full one back onto the truck. My dad’s lesson was, ‘Don’t trust anybody.’ Maybe that was true in the restaurant business, where he had to assume everyone in the place was stealing from him. Yet somehow I ended up with the opposite attitude – trusting everyone until they give me reason not to.