Subscribers often enjoy the quotes I site in the newsletter. Here’s a snapshot of what I regularly pull from. If you have any you’d like to share, send me an email.
Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve — Napoleon Hill
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job — Jim Rohn
Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
Create exceptional Opportunities for Exceptional people — Dan Kennedy
Find & hire people that are over-performing in crappy jobs — Dan Kennedy
S.Y.S.T.E.M. Save Your Self Time Energy & Money
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” — Theophrastus
Time spent alone in silence can yield breakthrough insights — Dave Dee
Time is linear; Success doesn’t have to be — Joe Glines
Coach the coachable; fire the rest. Winners want to be coached; they care about doing well — Dan Kennedy
Fire fast; Hire slow — Dan Kennedy
Listen to something inspiring when you get up. It will change your day! — Joe Glines
The strength of your business is based more on your customers, than your products / services — Joe Glines
The question isn’t who is going to let me it’s who is going to stop me — Ayn Rand
Thought is the original source of all wealth all success all material all great discoveries and affections and all achievements — Claude M. Bristol
When experiencing problems with tools, typically you should blame the operator, not the tool — Joe Glines
Poverty is a state of mind not the state of your wallet — Joe Glines
Successful people do the things unsuccessful people know they should be doing — Joe Glines
There are no “secrets” to success only things you don’t happen to know right now — Joe Glines
Information on its own isn’t overly helpful. When you use information it becomes knowledge and thereby power — Jim Straw
How you deal with failure determines whether or not you ever get to deal with the success — Dan Kennedy
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one — Mark Twain
I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it — Bill Gates
Put systems in place that allow ordinary people to do extraordinary things — Joe Glines
Systems allow the Ordinary to do the Extraordinary — Joe Glines
Systems let the Ordinary to do the Extraordinary — Joe Glines
If you’re not troubled over some of the things you’re saying no to, you need to say no MORE often! — Joe Glines
Focusing is more about saying no to everything than yes to something — Joe Glines
Ideas fade away if you don’t write them down — Dan Kennedy
Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first 4 sharpening the axe — Abraham Lincoln
Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt — Mark Twain
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another — Proverbs 27:17
Motion beats meditation — Gary Halbert
The written word is the strongest source of power in the entire universe — Gary Halbert
When a man understands that the aim of life is not material profit, but life itself, ceases to fix his attention exclusively on the external world, ” — Alexis Carrel
If the world should blow itself up tomorrow, the last audible voice would be an expert saying: it can’t be done —Peter Ustinov
If you want better results, forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead — James Cleary
You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems — James Cleary
The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown — James Cleary
The amateur does not know what to do. The master knows what not to do — James Cleary
Curiosity can empower or impede you — James Cleary
New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do — James Cleary
Don’t worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested — James Cleary
Don’t sacrifice peace of mind for a piece of luxury — James Cleary
The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful — James Cleary
If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know to do it and stand back!
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done — Bruce Lee
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own — Bruce Lee
Fact: You have just as much time as: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Thomas Jefferson & Einstein. It’s all about prioritizing & staying focused — Joe Glines
It’s better to get started in the wrong direction than not get started; We can fix the direction, we can’t fix not getting started — Norm Schwarzkopf
The happiest people I know are evaluating & improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating & judging others
You’ll always think there is a better time; Start now! — Joe Glines
Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get things done — Jocko Willink
You’ll never change your life until you change your daily routine — Joe Glines
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow — Ovid
A major reason for procrastination and lack of motivation is vagueness, confusion, and fuzzy minded thinking about what you are trying to do and in what order and for what reason — Brian Tracy
Successful people rarely start out as most likely to succeed
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right — Napoleon Hill
Work first, reward second, in order — Dan Kennedy
There’s more pay off from self-improvement than improving anything else — Dan Kennedy
The essentials of happiness are to have something: to do, to love, to hope for, to be needed for— Joe Glines
Never be handicapped by your education — Dan Kennedy
Tough times never last, but tough people do❗ — Robert Schuller
Being born in poverty isn’t a sin; staying in poverty might be — Dan Kennedy
Amazing things get done when you don’t care who gets the credit — Joe Glines
Today is always the most productive day of your week — Mark Hunter
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it — Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is power; Automation knowledge is a “super-power”💪 — Joe Glines
What I lack in Skills & Abilities I make up for with Optimism & Determination
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better — Abraham Lincoln
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today! — Chinese Proverb
Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart
You’re like a dull knife that just ain’t cutting. You’re talking loud and saying nothing — James Brown
Life is better when you start forgiving the people who never apologized — Zig Ziglar
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing — Theodore Roosevelt
Do the hard jobs first. Easy jobs will take care of themselves — Dale Carnegie
A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it.
I never lose. I either win, or learn — Nelson Mandela
Instead of trying to get more done, I’m working hard on having less to do — Joe Glines
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time — Thomas Edison
Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs — Farrah Gray
What you plant now, you will harvest later — Og Mandino
Long questions require short answers. Short questions require long answers
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior — Henry C. Link
Treat objections as requests for further information — Brian Tracy
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value — Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves — Albert Einstein
Action causes change — Joe Glines
You’ll never be criticized by someone who is doing more than you. You’ll always be criticized by someone doing less —Denzel Washington
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins — Benjamin Franklin
I’ll take a hard-working noob over a genius any day! — Joe Glines
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation — Brian Tracy
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction — George Lorimer
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it — Thomas Jefferson
I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat — Richard Evans
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities — Stephen Covey
The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it — Henry David
In the short term, things that contribute to productivity take more time than they save — Joe Glines
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity — Robert J. Hanlon
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good — Jerry West
When someone tells me “no,” I just ask someone else — Joe Glines
The person who says it’s not possible needs to get out of my way — Joe Glines
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up — Babe Ruth
Never see failure as failure, but only as a learning experience — Tom Hopkins
If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution — Dee Dee Artner
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach — Benjamin E. Mays
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less — Nathan W. Morris
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do — Thomas Sowell
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks — Warren Buffett
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one — Bill Gates
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me — Ayn Rand
I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination — Jeet Banerjee
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more — Henry Ford
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t; you’re usually right — Henry Ford
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it ― Theodore Roosevelt
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything — Thomas Sowell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus — Alexander Graham Bell
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work — Stephen King
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings — Thomas Sowell
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior — Henry C. Link
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think — Ayn Rand
The thing about smart people is that they sound crazy to dumb people — Steve Jobs
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity — Timothy Ferriss
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort — Paul J. Meyer
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest ― Leo Babauta
Happen to things, don’t let things happen to you — Stephen Covey
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance — Thomas Sowell
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I’m using little effort and getting a huge effect — Anthony Pettis
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity — Ayn Rand
Winners are NOT those who never fail but those who never quit.
If you’re a giver learn your limit, because takers don’t have any!
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm —Vince Lombardi
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” — C.S. Lewis
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore — Yogi Berra
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours — Yogi Berra
Even Napoleon had his Watergate — Yogi Berra
I never said most of the things I said — Yogi Berra
I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question — Yogi Berra
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer — Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it — Yogi Berra
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else — Yogi Berra
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is — Yogi Berra
It ain’t over till it’s over — Yogi Berra
It’s like deja-vu, all over again — Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded — Yogi Berra
The only color I don’t have is navy brown — Yogi Berra
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win — Yogi Berra
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase — Yogi Berra
There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em — Yogi Berra
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six — Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching — Yogi Berra
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you — Yogi Berra
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there — Yogi Berra
The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside — Sigmund Freud
History is just new people making old mistakes — Sigmund Freud
A man is sometimes more generous when he has little money than when he has much— Sigmund Freud
Recognizing a problem is half the success in solving it — Sigmund Freud
The “best” is always the enemy of the good — Sigmund Freud
Before you diagnose yourself with depression first make sure that you are not just surrounded by assholes — Sigmund Freud
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission — Eleanor Roosevelt
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It’s not how much you screw up that counts. Nope. It’s how you fix your messes that matters — John Carlton
You must stop expecting perfection — either from yourself, or your employees, or your customers and clients. It will never happen — John Carlton
Life isn’t a calm pond — it’s an unpredictable ocean… you gotta learn to enjoy the ride, no matter what — John Carlton
Real tragedy is having a loved one pass away, or getting bad news from the doctor. Everything else is just a small bump on the road as you haul ass through life — John Carlton
Live below your means. And avoid all debt — if you can’t pay cash-in-full, don’t buy it. Let your thrill be in your accomplishments, not the toys you can suddenly afford on credit — John Carlton
Put aside a healthy pile of “Up Yours” money, so you can walk away from any situation you don’t like, and know you’ll survive — John Carlton
Be a good animal. Sweat a little bit every day, sleep well, eat well, purge your system, live like a warrior-poet. You can monitor how healthy you are by walking up a hill — John Carlton
Learn some basic self-defense, today. The first thing a mugger does to a mark is knock you down –most people can’t handle any jostling at all, and freeze. The simple confidence of knowing what your options are — and where the “soft targets” are on an attacker — can save your life — John Carlton
Do the right thing every time, as a habit. If you’re not clear on what the right thing is, that means you’re facing another life lesson. Figure it out. The test begins now — John Carlton
Say “sorry” and “I love you” often and without self-consciousness — John Carlton
Take responsibility for your actions. This simple habit has profound consequences you will learn to enjoy. Fix what you break, clean up your mess, watch your buddy’s back — John Carlton
You want it, you take it, you pay the price. There really is no free lunch — John Carlton
If what you’ve done over the past 5 years hasn’t worked for you, then change what you’re doing. Or the next 5 years will be one long boring re-run of the same bullshit — John Carlton
Wake up. Challenge your belief systems. It’s better to realize you’ve been wrong for years, than to stubbornly hold onto a delusion that holds you back — John Carlton
Stop doing things that don’t work. Too many people go through their entire lives marrying the same type of mate over and over again, making the same behavior mistakes, and making excuses for themselves — John Carlton
Stop making excuses. I don’t care how badly your parents, or your teachers, or the system screwed up your head. You’re old enough to make the decision to start over and rewrite your script. Nothing will change for you until you do — John Carlton
Keep a master list of long-range goals — John Carlton
Accept defeat with grace. Learn your lesson, adjust, and plan for victory next time out. Know how to cheat. Don’t do it, but understanding the game thoroughly requires knowing how others take advantage — John Carlton
Work hard, play hard. Think harder — John Carlton
Just do it. The meek may inherit the earth, but only after the bold are through with it — John Carlton
If it’s critical, do it yourself. If it’s not, delegate. Learn the difference — John Carlton
Don’t lie. If you’re in a position where you can’t tell the truth, learn how to weasel-word your way around trouble or hurting innocent bystanders. But don’t lie — John Carlton
Some things are and always will be out of your control. Stop freaking out about it. If you gotta cry, cry. Don’t make a big deal of it. Life has tears built-in — John Carlton
Don’t borrow. Pay as you go. You borrow, you’re a kept man — John Carlton
Right now, you owe someone a phone call. If it’s not yet past 8 p.m., make the call, even if your hand shakes as you dial — John Carlton
Spending time with someone is more important than spending money on them — John Carlton
Don’t try to change anyone. Learn the difference between actual help and co-dependent enabling — John Carlton
Allow people to blossom or fail on their own. This takes ungodly patience, but it’s the only way it works — John Carlton
Stop arguing — John Carlton
Lead by example, not big talk. In fact, shut up until you’ve earned the right to talk by honing your chops — John Carlton
You’re going to be an idiot occasionally. Embrace this opportunity for a good story, learn from it, forgive yourself, and try not to make idiocy a common event in your day — John Carlton
Your reputation is built one act at a time, and a lifetime of good work can be squandered the same way. Respect is earned by consistent behavior — John Carlton
Be where you said you’d be, when you said you’d be there, ready to do what you said you’d do — John Carlton
Struggle is not a bad word. Accomplishment is impossible without it — John Carlton
Intellectually-sound people change their minds when the facts change. Ideology sucks as a lifestyle — John Carlton
Turn off the TV and go read — John Carlton
Listen more than you talk. And when you talk, observe the rules of conversation. If these rules are a mystery to you, go hunt them down — John Carlton
Don’t interfere with people disciplining their kids. Do interfere when clear abuse is occurring next door — John Carlton
Tip twenty percent. If you’ve never worked in a job where you had to be nice to rude people, tip even more. You won’t start a trend, but you will make someone’s day and generate good karma — John Carlton
Learn empathy. Get a vivid picture of what it’s like to walk in the other guy’s shoes — John Carlton
Go the extra mile. Even when no one does it for you — John Carlton
Sometimes you gotta take one for the team — John Carlton
Learn to tell a joke. But don’t rely on them. True wit is intelligence and humor, not one-upmanship or memorization — John Carlton
Not everyone likes you — John Carlton
Right now is a good time to stop the bullshit. Get real. Take a painful review of yourself, and be honest. Face your faults, and begin the fix — John Carlton
Love will always have baggage attached. Get over it. Love is essential to a full life. No matter what — John Carlton
What people think of you is irrelevant. But how you leave this world matters. Even if it’s all futile in the end, play your part as well as you can. Real courage is fear, in action. Play your hand — John Carlton
