Here are some of my favorite quotes that have influenced my leadership style and thinking:

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

— Peter Drucker

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

If you don’t know where you’re going - You could wind up somewhere else.

— Yogi Berra

It’s not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

— Stanley Huffty

I’m no miracle worker. I’m just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work.

— Don Shula

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

— Peter Daniels

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Mark Twain

The best way to predict the future is to design it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— JW Marriott Jr.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

We cannot solve the problems by thinking at the level at which we’ve created them.

— Einstein

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are your Rolodex

— Tom Peters

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

It does not take great intelligence to capitalize on success. However, it takes great ingenuity to transform failure into success. Profit from your losses.

— William Belitho

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

— The One Minute Manager

Remember you will not always win. But there is always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

— Maxwell Maltz