Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.
The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.
What kills leadership growth isn’t ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
Success is simple, but isn’t easy because it demands execution, not intentions.
Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.
If you want to live the life you’ve always wanted, you will have to change some things you’ve always avoided.
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.
Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.
Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
Without courage, it doesn’t matter how good the leader’s intentions are.
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.
True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.
True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
Men’s Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Don’t confuse one leader’s bluster for muster or another leader’s meekness for weakness.
People buy into leaders through the 3R’s of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.
New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the “fool’s gold” controls the fools.
Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.
To make people feel special you don’t have to pay money but rather pay attention.
The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.
The cook’s role is to feed the body while a leader’s role is to feed the mind and spirit.
Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.
Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.
You can’t make a difference until you dare to be different.
If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won’t be any room left for negative ones.
The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.
Don’t mortgage tomorrow’s possibilities by settling for today’s reality.
Leaders don’t correct people to success as much as believe them to it.
Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.
Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor’s green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.
To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.
History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.
Rejecting God’s truth b/c of mankind’s hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind’s incompetence.
Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.
Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you’ve always wanted.
Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.
No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.
A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.
You won’t find your dream until you lose your excuses.
Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.
The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.
Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.
Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.
Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.
People fail 2 ways: 1) don’t know what to do 2) don’t do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.
The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.
Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.
There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.
Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.
Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.
Life is meant to be lived in ‘the zone’, not the stands.
If you’re going down the wrong path, speeding up isn’t going to help.
To lead from the front you must get off your behind.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn’t work.
The difference between success & failure isn’t ability as much as action.
You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.
Never let what you don’t know stop you from doing what you do know.
Don’t mistake thinking for action & don’t mistake action for results.
Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
You can be on the right track and still get run over if you’re not moving.
You won’t get ahead until you get off your behind.
You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.
A person doesn’t feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.
Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.
Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.
Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.
Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.
A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.
Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.
I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.
Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.
Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person’s character.
The gap between intentions and actions is character.
The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.
The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.
Absolute power doesn’t corrupt, but rather, reveals character.
People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.
Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.
Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.
The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.
Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.
Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.
Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Defeats are merely repeats with better information.
It’s not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.
Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Sadly, when a person’s possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.
Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.
Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.
Those who row the boat don’t have time to rock it while those who rock it don’t have time to row it.
The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.
Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.
Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?
Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt.
Free society’s organize around the “invisible hand” while Force society’s organize around the State’s “visible fist.
Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
Do you have the talent?’ is rarely the question. ‘Do you have the guts to finish?’ is the real question.
It’s not about what you’re capable of, it’s about what you are willing to endure.
Vision is tomorrow’s reality expressed as an idea today.
Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.
I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.
Ideas have enormous consequences in a person’s life because you ultimately become what you believe.
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
A passive mindset “manages” to live with mediocre, but an active mindset “leads” to change until excellence results.
Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
It’s absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.
Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won’t spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
Most people overestimate others’ talents and underestimate their own.
If you aren’t loyal to the few you won’t be blessed with the many.
Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.
God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.
Winners aren’t those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.
Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.
Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.
Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.
It’s not the gifts you don’t have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don’t use.
You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.