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.

— Jack Welch

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

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.

— Yogi Berra

I’m no miracle worker. I’m just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work.

— Don Shula

Knowledge isn’t power until it’s applied.

— Dale Carnegie

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

— G.W.F. Hegel

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Henry Ford

Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

— Napoleon Hill

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

— Rodney L. Parsley

The best way to escape a problem is to solve it.

— Anonymous

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— Schopenhauer

Be willing to do the little things because it is the little things done daily that lead to big accomplishments.

— Mary K

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

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.

— Sam Walton