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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

— Thoreau

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Every organization is the product of the way its members think

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus

It’s not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

— Stanley Huffty

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

— Peter Daniels

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

— Henry Ford

The devil is in the details, but success is in the systems.

— JW Marriott Jr.

The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

— Michael Dell

When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.

— Ray Kroc

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

— Henry Ford

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Manage themselves and the people the work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence

— The One Minute Manager

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

— Seth Godin

Remember you will not always win. But there is always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

— Maxwell Maltz

The secret to life is to have a task… Something you bring everything to… And the most important thing is - It must be something you cannot possibly do.

— Henry Moore

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

— John Wooden

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

— John Wooden