Quotations

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Don’t wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Knowledge isn’t power until it’s applied.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them…

The best way to predict the future is to design it.

The womb of perseverance gives birth to hope and the passion to act

There’s always room at the top.

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Vision without Strategy is little more than a daydream.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

As long as a person doesn’t admit he is defeated, he is not defeated - he’s just a little behind and isn’t through fighting.

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

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.

The important thing to remember is that if you don’t have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious - whatever you do have is also contagious.

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.

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

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.