“Do just once what others say you can not do, and you will never

listen to their limitations again.”

- James R. Cook

“Great spirits have always found violent

opposition from mediocre minds”

- Albert Einstein

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong

room.”

- Unknown

“We are what we think. All that we are arises

with our thoughts. With our thoughts we

make the world.”

- Buddha

“If you don’t like change, you will like

irrelevancy even less!”

- Tom Peters

"If you always do what you've always done, then

you'll always get what you've always got."

- Jackie B. Cooper

"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)

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else

will."

- John Atkinson

"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it

offers you."

- TS Eliot

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

“It’s not the strongest nor the fastest of the species that survive;

but the ones most adaptable to change.”

- Charles Darwin

“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

“If you fail to plan, you can plan to fail.”

- Napoleon Hill

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”

- Jedi Master Yoda

"If you give a man something he doesn't

earn, you cheapen him."

- Coach Woody Hayes

“The best way to predict the future is

to invent it.”

- Alan Kay

"Nothing happens until something moves."

- Albert Einstein

“If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify

as only a dreamer.”

- Zig Ziglar

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do

not care who gets the credit."

- President Harry S Truman

“What lies behind us and what lies before us

are small matters compared to what lies

within us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

“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

"If you're not part of the solution you must be part of the problem."

- Eldridge Cleaver

“We make a living by what we get.

We make a life by what we give.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

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

- Jacob M. Braude

“People don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad managers.”

- Marcus Buckingham

"Good management consists of showing

average people how to do the work of superior

people."

- John D. Rockerfeller

“Want to improve your bottom line? Improve

your front line"

- Unknown

“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

“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

"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

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success in knowing how to

get along with people.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The effectiveness of communication is not

defined by the communication, but by

the response."

- Milton Erickson

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss

events. Small minds discuss people.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Follow me…..I am right behind you.”

- John Maxwell

“A good leader inspires others with confidence in

him; a GREAT leaders inspires others with

confidence in themselves.”

- Unknown

“We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

- Aristotle

"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

“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

“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

“You are the way you are, because that’s the way you’ve made up

your mind to be.”

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Albert Einstein

“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

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with

without vision is a nightmare."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

“Having a dream you don’t pursue is like

buying and ice cream and watching it melt all over

your hand.”

- Frank Papasso

"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

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing,

be nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

“Ego and Awareness can not co-exist.”

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original

dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Our world exists only through our perception of it.

Change our perception of our world and we change

the world -- for us."

- Roger Dawson

"When you are thirsty, it's too late to dig a

well."

- Japanese Proverb

“We are condemned to do more of the same until we change our fundamental view of

reality.”

- Neil Thornton

"You can't talk your way out of a situation you

behave yourself into."

- Dr. Stephen Covey

“Whenever you see a successful business,

someone once made a courageous decision.”

- Peter Drucker

“Anything I have ever done in my business, that was ever of any value to me, originally scared the

#$!& out of me.”

- Neil Thornton

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

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

“The biggest thing limiting you……is YOU. When will you learn to get yourself out of the

way?

- Neil Thornton

"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

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain

as most fools do.”

– Dale Carnegie

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Annie Dillard

"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

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you

back."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Doug Larson

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a

reality-in your own mind."

- Bruce Lee

"No-one can make you feel inferior without your

consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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

“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

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