Quotations
Here are some of my favorite quotes that have influenced my leadership style and thinking:
A problem is nothing but an opportunity in disguise.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery
Every organization is the product of the way its members think
If you don’t know where you’re going - You could wind up somewhere else.
I’m no miracle worker. I’m just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work.
Knowledge isn’t power until it’s applied.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The best way to escape a problem is to solve it.
The best way to predict the future is to design it.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Be willing to do the little things because it is the little things done daily that lead to big accomplishments.
I do not fear failure. I only fear the “slowing up” of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?’
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.