The document contains quotes about change, learning, growth, leadership, vision, action, persistence, and overcoming limitations. Many of the quotes encourage embracing change and learning, taking action and persisting through challenges, not being limited by past failures or others' views, and inspiring growth and vision in others through leadership.
3. “If you‟re the smartest
person in the
room, you‟re in the
wrong room.”
- Unknown
4. “The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot
learn, unlearn, and
relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
5. “We are what we think.
All that we are arises
with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we
make the world.”
- Buddha
6. “If you don‟t like
change, you will like
irrelevancy even less!”
- Tom Peters
7. "If you always do what
you've always done, then
you'll always get what
you've always got."
- Jackie B. Cooper
8. "If in the last few years you
haven't discarded a major
opinion or acquired a new
one, check your pulse. You
may be dead."
- Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
9. "If you don't run your
own life, somebody else
will."
- John Atkinson
10. "If you haven't the
strength to impose your
own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it
offers you."
- TS Eliot
11. In times of change, those who
are prepared to learn will inherit
the land, while those who think
they already know will find
themselves wonderfully
equipped to face a world that
no longer exists."
-Eric Hoffer
12. “It‟s not the strongest
nor the fastest of the
species that survive;
but the ones most
adaptable to change.”
- Charles Darwin
13. “The quality of a person‟s
life will be determined by the
depth of their commitment to
excellence, no matter what
their chosen field.”
-Vince Lombardi
14. “If you fail to
plan, you can plan to
fail.”
- Napoleon Hill
15. “Do, or do not.
There is no „try‟.”
- Jedi Master Yoda
16. "If you give a man
something he doesn't
earn, you cheapen
him."
- Coach Woody Hayes
17. “The best way to
predict the future is
to invent it.”
- Alan Kay
19. “If you don‟t have daily
objectives, you qualify
as only a dreamer.”
- Zig Ziglar
20. "If I have seen further it
is by standing on the
shoulders of giants."
- Sir Isaac Newton
21. "It is amazing what you
can accomplish if you do
not care who gets the
credit."
- President Harry S Truman
22. “What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are small matters
compared to what lies
within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. "The difference between interest
and commitment is when you are
interested in doing something, you
do it only when it is convenient but
when you are committed to
something, you accept no
excuses, only results."
– Unknown
24. “The greatest danger is not
that our hopes are set too
high and we fail to achieve
them; it‟s that they are too
low and we do.”
- Michelangelo
25. "If you're not part of the
solution you must be
part of the problem."
- Eldridge Cleaver
26. “We make a living by
what we get.
We make a life by what
we give.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
27. "Consider how hard it is
to change yourself and
you'll understand what
little chance you have
of changing others."
- Jacob M. Braude
29. "Good management
consists of showing
average people how to
do the work of superior
people."
- John D. Rockerfeller
30. “Want to improve your
bottom line? Improve
your front line"
- Unknown
31. “What assumptions am I
making, that I am not aware
that I am making, that gives me
what I see?”
What may I now invent, that I
have yet to invent, that will
give me more choices?
- Ben Zander
32. “15% of one‟s financial
success is due to one‟s
technical knowledge and
85% is due to skill in human
engineering – leadership
and influencing people.”
- Dale Carnegie
33. "We act as though comfort
and luxury were the chief
requirements of life. All that
we need to make us happy
is something to be
enthusiastic about."
- Albert Einstein
34. “The most important single
ingredient in the formula of
success in knowing how to
get along with people.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
38. “A good leader inspires
others with confidence in
him; a GREAT leaders
inspires others with
confidence in
themselves.”
- Unknown
39. “We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not
an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle
40. "I've missed more than 9,000 shots
in my career. I have lost almost 300
games. On 26 occasions, I have
been entrusted to take the game-
winning shot -and missed. I have
failed over and over and over again
in my life, and that is why ...I
succeed."
- Michael Jordan
41. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with
talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination are omnipotent.”
- Calvin Coolidge
42. “People are always blaming their
circumstances for what they are. I
don‟t believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the
world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances
they want, and if they can‟t find
them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw
43. “You are the way you
are, because that‟s the
way you‟ve made up
your mind to be.”
- John C. Maxwell
44. “You can not solve a
problem with the same
mind that created it.”
- Albert Einstein
45. “In the absence of a vision, we are
each driven by our own
agenda, finding people whose
interests match ours, and inattentive to
those whom we appear to have little in
common. We automatically judge our
players, workers and loved ones
against our standards, inadvertently
pulling the wind from their sales.”
- Ben Zander
46. "Vision without action is
a daydream. Action with
without vision is a
nightmare."
- Japanese Proverb
47. "If you don't know what
direction to take, how do you
expect your employees to
know what they should be
committed to?"
- Jenene Stafford
48. “Having a dream you
don‟t pursue is like
buying and ice cream and
watching it melt all over
your hand.”
- Frank Papasso
49. "You can learn more
about what works in one
day of taking action then
you can in one week of
thinking about it."
- George Watson
52. “There is no conflict in
reality, check your
premises.”
- Ayn Rand
53. "Let go of your attachment to
being right, and suddenly your
mind is more open. You're able
to benefit from the unique
viewpoints of others, without
being crippled by your own
judgment."
– Ralph Marston
57. “We are condemned to
do more of the same
until we change our
fundamental view of
reality.”
- Neil Thornton
58. "You can't talk your way
out of a situation you
behave yourself into."
- Dr. Stephen Covey
59. “Whenever you see a
successful
business, someone once
made a courageous
decision.”
- Peter Drucker
60. “Anything I have ever
done in my business, that
was ever of any value to
me, originally scared the
#$!& out of me.”
- Neil Thornton
61. Want to know what you
brand is?
Email 5 of you customers
and ask them what you
stand for in 3 words.
Hint: It will not be the words
you may think.
- Scott Stratten
62. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your
destiny."
Frank Outlaw
63. “The biggest thing
limiting you……is YOU.
When will you learn to
get yourself out of the
way?
- Neil Thornton
64. "There is no more destructive
force in human affairs - not
greed, not hatred - than the
desire to have been right. Non-
attachment to possessions is
trivial when compared with non-
attachment to opinions."
- Mark Kleiman
66. "How we spend our
days is, of course, how
we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard
67. “The greatest good you
can do for another is
not just share your
riches, but to reveal to
him his own.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
68. "The most important thing in
life is not to capitalize on
your successes - any fool
can do that. The really
important thing is to profit
from your mistakes."
- William Bolitho
69. "Don't let the fear of
striking out hold you
back."
- Babe Ruth
70. "Some of the worlds
greatest feats were
accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they
were impossible."
- Doug Larson
71. "Defeat is not defeat
unless accepted as a
reality-in your own
mind."
- Bruce Lee
72. "No-one can make you
feel inferior without your
consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
73. "Ninety per-cent of what we
worry about never
happens, yet we worry and
worry. What a horrible way
to go through life! What a
horrible thing to do to your
colon!"
- Leo F Buscaglia
74. "Until you value
yourself, you will not
value your time. Until you
value your time, you will
not do anything with it."
- M. Scott Peck
75. “Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish
by its ability to climb a
tree, it will live its
whole life believing that
it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein
76. Here‟s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the
rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in
the square holes…the ones who see things
differently– they‟re not fond of rules… You can
quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify
them, but the only thing you can‟t do is ignore
them because they change things…they push
the human race forward, and while some may
see them as the crazy ones, we see
genius, because the ones who are crazy
enough to think they can change the world, are
the ones who do.
- Steve Jobs