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.

— Confucius

A problem is nothing but an opportunity in disguise.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

— Jack Welch

Don’t ever talk until you know what you are talking about.

— Sam Rayburn

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

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!

— Tom Peters

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

— Jack Welch

Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them…

— J.W. Marriott, Jr.

Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

— Rodney L. Parsley

The only way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Jim Walker

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

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

— Ray Kroc

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Mary K

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.

— Heinlein's Razor

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