Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you’re not moving.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person’s life because you ultimately become what you believe.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

A person doesn’t feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn’t work.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

You won’t get ahead until you get off your behind.

Those focused on the future don’t complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren’t focused on their futures.

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person’s character.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Losers sulk; posers talk; winners walk – choose wisely.

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

Don’t mortgage tomorrow’s possibilities by settling for today’s reality.

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

It’s absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

Just as water will not surpass the capacity of the container, a team’s success will not surpass the capacity of the leader.

Sadly, when a person’s possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.