“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
– Mark Twain

“Don’t waste time getting people in the boat, or trying to keep people in the boat, that don’t want to be there.”
– Richard Branson

“Complacency starts when you start to imagine and plan for a future that doesn’t require any courage.”
– Richard Branson

“An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Opportunities somehow always seem to gravitate toward busy people who can hardly keep up with those they already have. Logically, it would seem that opportunities would make an effort to seek out individuals who have an abundance of time available, but instead opportunities appear for those who have goals and dreams and a plan for achieving them. We often think of opportunity as a living, moving thing, something that actively seeks out a willing recipient. In fact, the reverse is true. Opportunities are ideas or concepts that exist only in the minds of those who recognize them. When you have no goals or plans, opportunities mean nothing to you. They become opportunities only when you recognize them as ideas that you can implement to help you move toward your goal.”
– Napoleon Hill

“While we might frown at Volkswagen for cheating the world’s regulators and wonder if diesel is actually cleaner than regular unleaded – it isn’t – which fuel your car burns really doesn’t matter if you eat meat or anything with palm oil in it. Methane from cow farts is disastrous to the ozone layer, and the demand for palm, found in just about every processed food we eat, is largely responsible for those forest fires in Indonesia. While we are trying to save the planet with our left hand, our right hand is destroying in at an unimaginable rate.”
– April 2016 Bimmer Magazine

“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.”
– Kobe Bryant

“The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn’t hear opportunity’s knock at the door because they were down at the convenience store buying lottery tickets. They have never learned that, as Branch Ricky, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1942-1950, once observed, ‘Luck is the residue of design.” You will be surprised how much your luck will improve when you make sure you are prepared to take advantage of opportunities.

How many times have you had a great idea that you failed to act upon, only to discover later that someone used the same idea to start a business, get a promotion, or find a better job? Resolve now to get into action when you have a good idea. Don’t wait for something to happen – make it happen!”
– Napoleon Hill

“Once you have a sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values that direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long and short-term goals. You have the power of a written constitution based on correct principles, against which every decision concerning the most effective us of your time, your talents, and your energies can be effectively measured.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Entrepreneurship means embracing behaviors that would have gotten you thrown out of school.”
– Richard Branson