Here are some of my favorite quotes that have influenced my leadership style and thinking:

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

— Confucius

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

— Jack Welch

Don’t allow your talent to take you where your character can’t keep you

Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery

Every organization is the product of the way its members think

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus

I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.

— Tom Peters

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

— G.W.F. Hegel

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

— Henry Ford

Put everything you have into everything you do and excellence will define you.

— Mary K

Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates

Vision without Strategy is little more than a daydream.

— John Maxwell

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

— Jack Welch

It does not take great intelligence to capitalize on success. However, it takes great ingenuity to transform failure into success. Profit from your losses.

— William Belitho

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

— Vince Lombardi

What you get by reaching your destination isn’t nearly as important as what you become by reaching that destination

— Zig Ziglar

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

— Jim Collins