Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
- Stephen R. Covey

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."
— Anthony Robbins: Motivational speaker and author

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it...; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
- David Ogilvy

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
— Lou Holtz: Author, motivational speaker and former football coach

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
— Jane Smiley: Pulitzer Prize—winning American novelist

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
— Jim Ryun: Former track athlete and politician

"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero: Was a 1st-century BC Roman philosopher