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"If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?"
"Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way."
"There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read."
"On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life."
"Things don't just happen; things happen just."
"Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything."
"Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century."
"Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed."
"The key to turning dreams into reality is action."
"In order to find, you must first search."
"We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us."
"When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew."
"Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present."
"Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that."
"Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music."
"Things don't change, people change."
"If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!"
"We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning"
"Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge."
"When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard."