The longer we analyze the current ways of operating, the further we fend off that awesome day when we will have to change something. Analysis becomes a defensive maneuver to avoid making fundamental change.”
–Michael Hammer and Steven Stanton

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
–Lord Chesterfield

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
–Henry Ford

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
–Walter Bagehot

You have a zero percent scoring average on shots you don’t take.”
–Wayne Gretzky

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
–Marcus Aurelius

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t fight the battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.”
– George S. Patton

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgi

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.”
– Charles C. Noble

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower

Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
–Arnold Toynbee

If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
–Mother Teresa

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
–Emily Chartier

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
–Eugene McCarthy

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is placed on him.”
–Alfred Sloan, Former General Motors Chairman

Every man’s occupation should be beneficial to his fellow man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.”
–P.T. Barnum, entrepreneur

If you don’t listen you don’t sell anything.”
–Caroline Marland, newspaper executive

Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.”
–Tom Peters, management consultant

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be exlained away.”
–Harold Geneen, telecommunications executive

The will to concquer is the first condition of victory.”
–Ferdinand Foch, military strategist

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen.”
–Anita Roddick, Body Shop Founder

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.”
–Joe Gibbs, football coach

Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is
winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.”
–Anna Lappe, writer

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
– Samuel Johnson, lexicographer

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only
one thing endures, and that is character.”
–Horace Greeley, publisher

Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only
through gambling can we take advantage of them.”
–Clarence Birdseye, entrepreneur

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.”
–Epictetus, philosopher

Think you can, think you can’t; either way, you’ll be right.”
–Henry Ford, industrialist

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
–Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being
good every day.”
–Willie Mays, baseball player

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

It is impossible to win the great prizes in life without running risks.”
–Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men havehad to accept disappointments…The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
–Bernard Baruch, businessman

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perserverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
– John D. Rockefeller, industrialist

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
– Joe Paterno, football coach

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
– Socrates, philosopher

Be a yardstick on quality. Some people aren’t user to an environment where excellence is expected.
– Steve Jobs, Co-Founder Apple Computer

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you don’t catch up with it.
– Clarence Darrow, lawyer

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
– T.S. Eliot, poet

Perfect valor is to do without witness what one would do before all the world.
– Francois La Rouchefoucauld, writer

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
– Omar Bradley, General United States Army

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
–Edward R. Murrow, journalist

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
– Henry Ford, auto manufacturer

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory the won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.
–Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President

I don’t think there’s any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work. If you don’t reach them, then it’s OK, just as long as you set it and then give 100% of yourself. 
 – Dan Jansen, speed skater