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

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily."
— Zig Ziglar: Author and motivational speaker

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus

People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.
- Stephen Gregg

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- Willa A. Foster

"Listen to your life. All moments are key moments."
— Frederick Buechner: Writer and theologian

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart."
— Helen Keller: Was a blind and deaf author and lecturer

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings--and put compensation as a carrier behind it--you almost don't have to manage them.
- Jack Welch

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
- Daisy Bates

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey Firestone: Tire executive

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers: Humorist

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. - E.M. Gray