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

A problem is nothing but an opportunity in disguise.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

— Dorothea Brande

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

— Dale Carnegie

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

— Jack Welch

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Art Linkletter

If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

— Buddy Ryan

Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

— Rodney L. Parsley

Vision without Strategy is little more than a daydream.

— John Maxwell

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Aristotle

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

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

— Ray Kroc

You are your Rolodex

— Tom Peters

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

We get distracted by what is outside our control…[Success] begins by trying to make each day count …If you sincerely try to make each day a masterpiece, angels can do no better.

— John Wooden