The document contains over 50 quotes related to business, leadership, success, and personal development. Some key themes that emerge are: - The importance of trust, integrity, and treating customers/people well to be successful. - Perseverance and never giving up are critical to overcoming obstacles and achieving goals. - Effective leadership is about influence, not just authority, and includes being inclusive. - It's important to continuously improve one's skills and take risks in order to progress.

1. “People are influenced to change
by people they trust.”
Mike Bosworth - Story Seekers

2. “Efficiency is doing the thing right.
Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
Peter Drucker

3. “Integrity is what we do, what
we say and what we say we do. “
Don Galer

4. “Lack of direction, not lack of
time, is the problem. We all have
24 hour days.”
Zig Ziglar

5. “Obstacles can´t stop you.
Problems can´t stop you.
Only you can stop you.”
Jeffrey Gitomer

6. “Our greatest weakness lies in
giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just
one more time.”
Thomas Edison

7. “Success is never final.
Failure is never fatal.
It is the courage that counts.”
Winston Churchill

8. “To command is to serve,
nothing more and nothing less. “
Andre Malraux

9. “To do great things is difficult,
but to command great things is
more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

10. “Tough times never last,
but tough people do.”
Robert Shuller

11. “We cannot solve our problem
with the same thinking we used
when we created it.”
Albert Einstein

12. “What counts is not necessarily
the dog in the fight -
it´s the fight in the dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

13. “50 % of business is psychology.
Business is a party of people -
not computers.”
Alfred Herrhausen

14. “A customers buy from A people.
B and C customers buy from B
people.”
Anonymous

15. A goal without a plan of
execution and a deadline will
just stay a goal.
Aurorasa Sima

16. “A leader is one who knows the
way, goes the way,
and shows the way.”
John Maxwell

17. “Being defeated is only a
temporary condition. Giving up
is what makes it permanent.”
Marilyn von Savant

18. “Businesses make most mistakes
when times are good - not when
times are bad.”
Alfred Herrhausen

19. “Change before you have to.”
Jack Welch

20. “Change is the only constant in
business. Those who are able to
adapt will win.”
Alfred Herrhausen

21. “Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.”
John Wooden

22. “Excellence is not a skill.
It´s an attitude.”
Ralph Marston

23. “Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed
is strong enough.”
Og Mandino

24. “Fear is the destroyer of dreams
and the killer of ambitions.”
Jeffrey Benjamin

25. Good customer service costs less
than new customer acquisition.
Aurorasa Sima

26. “Great works are performed not
by strength but by
perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson

27. “He that is good for making
excuses is seldom good for
anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin

28. “The days of the authoritarian alpha male
leaders have ended. Good leadership is
about inclusiveness.”
Aurorasa Sima

29. “If opportunity doesn't knock,
build a door.”
Milton Berle

30. “If people like you, they'll listen
to you, but if they trust you,
they'll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar

31. “If we all did the things we are
capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison

32. “If you are not taking care
of your customer, your
competitor will.”
Bob Hooey

33. “In Business and in Life. You
don't get what you deserve.
You get what you negotiate.”
Lester Karrass

34. “It is not necessary to do
extraordinary things to get
extraordinary results.”
Warren Buffet

35. “It´s easier to explain price once
than to apologize for quality
forever.”
Zig Ziglar

36. “Keep your fears to yourself, but
share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

37. “Leadership is doing what is
right when no one is watching.”
George Van Valkenburg

38. “Leadership is the art of giving
people a platform for spreading
ideas that work.”
Seth Godin

39. “Make a customer, not a sale.”
Katherine Barchetti

40. “Most time gets lost by not
thinking things through.”
Alfred Herrhausen

41. “No pain, no change.”
Mike Bosworth - Solution Selling

42. “Opportunities are usually
disguised as hard work, so most
people don't recognize them.”
Ann Landers

43. “Procrastination is a conversion
killer and business destroyer.”
Rich Scheffren

44. “Prospecting - Find the
man with the problem.”
Ben Friedman

45. “Self-pity is an acid which eats
holes in happiness.”
Earl Nightingale

46. “Success is the ability to go from
failure to failure without losing
your enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill

47. “Take a risk. If you win,
you'll be happy; if you lose,
you'll be wise.”
Anonymous

48. “Tend to the people, and they
will tend to the business.”
John Maxwell

49. “When selling (and/or
influencing), your expertise
can become your enemy.”
Mike Bosworth - Story Seekers

50. “The key to successful
leadership today is influence,
not authority.”
Ken Blanchard

51. “The most effective way to do it,
is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart

52. “The questions you ask are more
important than the things you
could ever say.”
Tom Freese

53. “The road to Easy Street goes
through the sewer.”
John Madden

54. “The supreme quality of
leadership is integrity.”
Dwight Eisenhower

55. “Try not to become a person of
success, but try to become a
person of value.”
Albert Einstein

56. “We have to say what we think.
We have to do what we say. And
then we have to be what we say.”
Alfred Herrhausen

57. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle,
we lead people. Lead me, follow
me, or get out of my way.”
George S. Patton

58. “Whatever you are,
be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln

59. “You don't close a sale; you open
a relationship if you want to
build a successful business.”
Patricia Fripp

60. “You just can't beat the person
who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth

61. Don't wish it were easier.
Improve your skillset and
become better.
Aurorasa Sima

62. “If we all did the things we are
capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison

63. “You were born to win, but to be
a winner, you must plan,
prepare and expect to win.”
Zig Ziglar

64. “For every sale you miss because you're
enthusiastic, you miss a hundred you're not
enthusiastic enough.”
Zig Ziglar

65. People will forget what you said, forget
what you did - but never how you made
them feel about themselves.
Aurorasa Sima

66. “There are no traffic jams along
the extra mile.”
Robert Staubach

67. Stay in touch!
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Aurorasa Sima