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.

— Anonymous

Eternal vigilance is the price of mastery

He who never makes mistakes never did anything that’s worthy

— Fortune Cookie

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Success has many fathers while defeat is an orphan child

Success is never final

— Winston Churchill

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

— Rodney L. Parsley

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

— Mark Twain

The best way to escape a problem is to solve it.

— Anonymous

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’re not finished when you’re defeated…you’re finished when you quit.

— Van Crouch

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

— Jack Welch

Manage themselves and the people the work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence

— The One Minute Manager

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

— Heinlein's Razor

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 important thing to remember is that if you don’t have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious - whatever you do have is also contagious.

— Danny Cox

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

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

— John Wooden