Quotations
Here are some of my favorite quotes that have influenced my leadership style and thinking:
Don’t wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it.
Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery
He who never makes mistakes never did anything that’s worthy
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child
Success is never final
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everyone else up.
The best way to escape a problem is to solve it.
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’re not finished when you’re defeated…you’re finished when you quit.
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Manage themselves and the people the work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
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.
The important thing to remember is that if you don’t have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious - whatever you do have is also contagious.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.