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

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

— Dorothea Brande

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do.

— Benjamin Franklin

Change before you have to.

— Jack Welch

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus

I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.

— Tom Peters

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

— Peter Daniels

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Henry Ford

The devil is in the details, but success is in the systems.

— JW Marriott Jr.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates

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

— Einstein

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn’t have anyone following them is just out for a walk.

— John Maxwell

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

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

What you get by reaching your destination isn’t nearly as important as what you become by reaching that destination

— Zig Ziglar

You cannot have something you don’t currently have without doing something you are not currently doing.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

— John Wooden