“Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”
~ Dag Hammarskjold, statesman
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
– Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be judged by only one thing: the result.”
– Vince Lombardi, football coach
“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”
– Dwight Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president
“It’s no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you’re going to win or lose, and focus all your full attention on what’s happening right at this moment.”
– Phil Jackson, basketball coach
“Investment decisions or personal decisions don’t wait for the picture to be clarified.”
– Andrew Grove, executive
“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”
– Buddha
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”
– Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor
“Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.”
– W. Edwards Deming, quality expert
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
– Henry Kissinger, secretary of state
“The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.”
– Lee Iacocca, Auto Executive
“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.”
– Bo Bennett, Author
“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.”
– Bo Bennett, Author
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”
– Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
“I don’t believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
– Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president
“It’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
– Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver
“I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan, basketball player
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve.”
– Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian
“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
– Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
– Arnold Bennett, Novelist
“A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”
– H. Stanley Judd, Writer
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
“Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation.”
– Lee J. Colan
“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.”
– Scott Sorrell
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
– Robert Heinlein
“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
– Bruce Barton, Author and Politician
“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
– Claude M. Bristol, Author
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author
“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
– John F. Kennedy, 35 President of the United States