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

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

— Dale Carnegie

Change before you have to.

— Jack Welch

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

— Peter Drucker

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

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

— Henry Ford

Predictability can lead to failure.

— T. Boone Pickens

Put everything you have into everything you do and excellence will define you.

— Mary K

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everyone else up.

— Mark Twain

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

— JW Marriott Jr.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

— Stephen Covey

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

— Schopenhauer

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

— Aristotle

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

— Mary K

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

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

— Vince Lombardi

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

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