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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Sep 24, 2025
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do