"The most critical thing I think business leaders and future business leaders need to understand is to stay focused on the things that you can control and influence, and then execute, execute, execute."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
-- Oprah Winfrey

"There are some things you don’t have to know how it works—only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." —Jim Rohn

Success means doing the things you don't want to do.

"At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you." —Jim Rohn

"Imagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."

I've got to say "no" to the good so I can say "yes" to the best.
Zig Ziglar

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

"When everybody tells you that you are being idealistic or impractical, consider the possibility that everybody could be wrong about what is right for you."

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

"The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with."

"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there." —Jim Rohn

"Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself."

"Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with. A man is what he makes of himself."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."

Of all the “attitudes” we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life changing. Zig Ziglar

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

"Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures."