- “Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you’ll make BIG money).” -Brian Tracy
- “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.” -Ross Perot, billionaire
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” -Conrad Hilton
- “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” -Bill Gates
- “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” -Walt Disney
- “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” -Anita Roddick
- “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” -Henry Ford
- “Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves and by which they are willing to be judged.” -Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express
- “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” -Steve Jobs
- “Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.” -Harland David Sanders, a.k.a. “Colonel Sanders”
- “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” -Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc.
- “Take care of your business and your business will take care of you.” -Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s
- “I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.” -Mark Leslie, CEO of Veritas Software
- “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself, and the organization gets pulled up with you.” -Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
- “It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” -William James
- “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.” -Anton LaVey
- “You know the one thing that’s wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. -Bill Clinton
Unknown Authored Quotes
- “One way to get ahead is by working when others aren’t.”
- “He who holds the gold makes the rules.”
- “Don’t make it hard for me to pay you.”
- “When you point your finger at someone to blame, just remember that the other 4 fingers are pointing back at you.”
- “Your workers will only do what you inspect. Not what you expect them to do.”
- “There aren’t shortcuts. Merely direct paths. Most people don’t take them, because they frighten us. Things that look like shortcuts are usually detours disguised as less work.”
- “There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.”
- “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.”
- “Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
