The document contains a collection of 50 quotes from Howard Rambin on various topics related to success, freedom, leadership, and business. Some of the key ideas expressed are: success requires constant self-improvement; freedom is lost gradually through apathy; order and planning are important for creativity; consistency and an upbeat outlook are important for success; and people only do business with those they know, like, and trust. The quotes provide advice and perspectives on achieving goals, overcoming adversity, and leading an effective and principled life.

1. Howard Rambin’s 50 favorite
quotes

2. Success requires constant and never ending improvement.

3. Without ammo you have
no weapon

4. Results are the only things that have value.

5. Freedom is lost gradually by an
uninterested, uninformed,
and uninvolved people.

6. People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve
neither and will lose both.

7. Be aware that apathy is the greatest
danger to our freedom.

8. Plan for the worse, strive for your goals and hope for the best.

9. “If you think you can, you’re right. If you
think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford

10. What makes greatness is starting
something that runs without you and
after you.

11. Sometime, adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

12. Order in our lives helps us to relax, think and plan
creatively. We tend to be more serene and hopeful
when there is order rather than chaos.

13. Freedom is not free… but the U.S.
Marine Corps will pay most of your
share.

14. Make happiness a lifelong habit.

15. Success is a journey, not a destination.

16. Luck is not a strategy.

17. A train wreck in slow motion is
train wreck.

18. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

19. The biggest reason people fail is that
they fail to plan and never take effective
action.

20. “Success comes from an upbeat outlook combined with
ceaseless learning.” Napoleon Hill

21. If you don’t have an exit
strategy, don’t get into the game

22. While we teach, we learn.

23. In business, what you don’t know can
crush you. Learning more, faster can
be one of your greatest competitive
advantages.

24. Consistency is one of the
most important principles of
success.

25. “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to
work and give to those who would not.”
- Thomas Jefferson

26. What you know, how fast you know it, is
your advantage.

27. Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge
box.

28. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil of for good men to do
nothing.

29. Evergreen values of honesty, hard work and a constant attention to
new opportunities and risk.

30. Make happiness the organizing principle of your life.

31. “Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.”
Michael Eisner

32. Life is the art of drawing
without an eraser.

33. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

34. The power to tax is the power to destroy.

35. Hire character, train skill.

36. If not you? Who? If not now? When?

37. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat
it.

38. Speak the truth and face
the facts.

39. “All our dreams can come true, if we
have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney

40. Where greed, arrogance and ignorance mix, tears tend to follow.

41. The downfall of all investors is ultimately “greed”.

42. “The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston
Churchill

43. SUCCESS – Using leverage plus the compounding of preparedness
and work ethic.

44. Everyone loves to have an opportunity to be his or her best.

45. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start
today and make a new ending.

46. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be
ruled by evil man.” Plato

47. “I do not believe that you can do todays job with yesterday’s methods and be
successful tomorrow.” Nelson Jackson

48. People only do business with people they know, like, and trust.

49. A system is doomed when more people have an interest in continuing a
mistake than in correcting it.

50. Washington has an agenda that has nothing to do with what’s right for
Americans.