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

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

— Dale Carnegie

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

— Jack Welch

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

— Anonymous

If anything is worth trying at all, it’s worth trying at least ten times.

— Art Linkletter

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

— Jack Welch

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

— Peter Daniels

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

— J.W. Marriott, Jr.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

— Henry Ford

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

— Rodney L. Parsley

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everyone else up.

— Mark Twain

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

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

— George Hewell

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Darrell Royal

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?’

— George S. Patton

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

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

— The One Minute Manager

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

— Heinlein's Razor

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

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