The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.- Peter Drucker

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance."
— Marie Curie: Was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and a two-time Nobel Prize winner

"The mind is the ground of everything."
— Thich Nhat Hanh: Buddhist monk, scholar, and peace activist

"A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after."
— Marcus Aurelius: Was a Roman emperor and philosopher

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
— John W. Gardner: Was the secretary of health, education and welfare

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
- Kazuo Inamori

"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose."
— Lance Armstrong: 7-time winner of the Tour de France

"Life is adventure dare it."
~ Mother Teresa: Nobel Peace Prize Winner

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author and lecturer

Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
- Bob Parsons

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."
— Earl Nightingale:

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
- Thomas Watson, Sr.

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
- David Sarnoff

"Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author and speaker

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
- Robert Bosch

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your career!"
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
~ Ashley Montague

Hire character. Train skill.
- Peter Schutz