A list of the quotes I have been selecting for some of our presentations.

1. “Do just once what
others say you can not
do, and you will never
listen to their limitations
again.”
- James R. Cook

2. “Great spirits have
always found violent
opposition from
mediocre minds”
- Albert Einstein

3. “If you‟re the smartest
person in the room,
you‟re in the wrong
room.”
- Unknown

4. “We are what we think.
All that we are arises
with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we
make the world.”
- Buddha

5. “If you don‟t like
change, you will like
irrelevancy even less!”
- Tom Peters

6. "If you always do what
you've always done, then
you'll always get what
you've always got."
- Jackie B. Cooper

7. "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)

8. "If you don't run your
own life, somebody else
will."
- John Atkinson

9. "If you haven't the
strength to impose your
own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it
offers you."
- TS Eliot

10. 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

11. “It‟s not the strongest
nor the fastest of the
species that survive;
but the ones most
adaptable to change.”
- Charles Darwin

12. “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

13. “If you fail to plan,
you can plan to fail.”
- Napoleon Hill

14. “Do, or do not.
There is no „try‟.”
- Jedi Master Yoda

15. "If you give a man
something he doesn't
earn, you cheapen
him."
- Coach Woody Hayes

16. “The best way to
predict the future is
to invent it.”
- Alan Kay

17. "Nothing happens until
something moves."
- Albert Einstein

18. “If you don‟t have daily
objectives, you qualify
as only a dreamer.”
- Zig Ziglar

19. "If I have seen further it
is by standing on the
shoulders of giants."
- Sir Isaac Newton

20. "It is amazing what you
can accomplish if you do
not care who gets the
credit."
- President Harry S Truman

21. “What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are small matters
compared to what lies
within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. "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

23. “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

24. "If you're not part of the
solution you must be
part of the problem."
- Eldridge Cleaver

25. “We make a living by
what we get.
We make a life by what
we give.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

26. "Consider how hard it is
to change yourself and
you'll understand what
little chance you have
of changing others."
- Jacob M. Braude

27. “People don‟t leave
bad companies, they
leave bad managers.”
- Marcus Buckingham

28. "Good management
consists of showing
average people how to
do the work of superior
people."
- John D. Rockerfeller

29. “Want to improve your
bottom line? Improve
your front line"
- Unknown

30. “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

31. “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

32. "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

33. “The most important single
ingredient in the formula of
success in knowing how to
get along with people.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

34. "The effectiveness of
communication is not
defined by the
communication, but by
the response."
- Milton Erickson

35. “Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss
events. Small minds
discuss people.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

36. “Follow me…..I am
right behind you.”
- John Maxwell

37. “A good leader inspires
others with confidence in
him; a GREAT leaders
inspires others with
confidence in
themselves.”
- Unknown

38. “We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not
an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle

39. "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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “You are the way you
are, because that‟s the
way you‟ve made up
your mind to be.”
- John C. Maxwell

43. “You can not solve a
problem with the same
mind that created it.”
- Albert Einstein

44. “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

45. "Vision without action is
a daydream. Action with
without vision is a
nightmare."
- Japanese Proverb

46. "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

47. “Having a dream you
don‟t pursue is like
buying and ice cream and
watching it melt all over
your hand.”
- Frank Papasso

48. "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

49. "To avoid criticism, do
nothing, say nothing,
be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard

50. “Ego and Awareness can
not co-exist.”
- Eckhart Tolle

51. "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

52. "Man's mind, once
stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original
dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

53. "Our world exists only
through our perception of it.
Change our perception of
our world and we change
the world -- for us."
- Roger Dawson

54. "When you are thirsty,
it's too late to dig a
well."
- Japanese Proverb

55. “We are condemned to
do more of the same
until we change our
fundamental view of
reality.”
- Neil Thornton

56. "You can't talk your way
out of a situation you
behave yourself into."
- Dr. Stephen Covey

57. “Whenever you see a
successful business,
someone once made a
courageous decision.”
- Peter Drucker

58. “Anything I have ever
done in my business, that
was ever of any value to
me, originally scared the
#$!& out of me.”
- Neil Thornton

59. 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

60. 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

61. “The biggest thing
limiting you……is YOU.
When will you learn to
get yourself out of the
way?
- Neil Thornton

62. "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

63. “Any fool can criticize,
condemn and complain
as most fools do.”
– Dale Carnegie

64. "How we spend our
days is, of course, how
we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard

65. "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

66. "Don't let the fear of
striking out hold you
back."
- Babe Ruth

67. "Some of the worlds
greatest feats were
accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they
were impossible."
- Doug Larson

68. "Defeat is not defeat
unless accepted as a
reality-in your own
mind."
- Bruce Lee

69. "No-one can make you
feel inferior without your
consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

70. "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

71. "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

72. “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

73. 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