“Be happy with 80%. No one will do it as good as you. Otherwise you will become a log jam in your own company.”
– Richard Branson

“In a fee and democratic society, the number of opportunities for achievement is virtually limitless. In every business or profession, there are innumerable opportunities to invent new products, to improve manufacturing and administrative processes, and to offer better service than the competitor down the street. But every opportunity will soon drift away unless someone seizes it and puts it to work.

Anytime you are faced with a difficult problem, stop for a moment and ask yourself: “what is the opportunity hidden in this problem?’ When you find an opportunity, you will be far ahead of your competitors.”
– Napoleon Hill

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
– Proverbs 27:17

“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