Quotations
Here are some of my favorite quotes that have influenced my leadership style and thinking:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery
Every organization is the product of the way its members think
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them…
Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The only way to predict the future is to invent it.
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.
When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
Be willing to do the little things because it is the little things done daily that lead to big accomplishments.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
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.