Quotations
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.
Don’t ever talk until you know what you are talking about.
Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
If anything is worth trying at all, it’s worth trying at least ten times.
If you don’t know where you’re going - You could wind up somewhere else.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn’t have anyone following them is just out for a walk.
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?’
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 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.
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.