Quotations
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.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Don’t wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it.
If anything is worth trying at all, it’s worth trying at least ten times.
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.
Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them…
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everyone else up.
The womb of perseverance gives birth to hope and the passion to act
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
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.
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?’
It does not take great intelligence to capitalize on success. However, it takes great ingenuity to transform failure into success. Profit from your losses.
Manage themselves and the people the work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
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.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.