Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.
It is not the critic who counts.
The path of least resistance will never make you proud.
Success is in the details.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.
It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
If you think you are too old to rock ’n roll, then you are.
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is power.
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.