Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion
or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle
or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
-- African Proverb --
We're fascinated by speed and frustrated by slow
-- Dan Kennedy --
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today
than he was yesterday
-- Abraham Lincoln --
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken --
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
-- Karl Reiland --
You gotta have goals!
-- Zig Ziglar --
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
-- Les Brown --
You'll never leave where you are,
until you decide where you’d rather be.
-- Robert Brockman --
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur --
Effective people are not problem-minded;
they're opportunity-minded.
They feed opportunities and starve problems.
-- Dr. Stephen Covey --
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
-- Pogo --
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle --
Stop selling. Start helping.
-- Zig Ziglar --
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand
and leading him down the path of reason.
-- Pythagoras --
You can't get different results by doing things the same way.
-- Richard A. Moran --
Telling ain’t teaching
and listening ain’t learning.
-- Bob Barkley --
The fact that an opinion has been widely held
is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
-- Bertrand Russell --
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
What isn't tried . . . won't work.
-- Claude McDonald --
You can get everything you want in life,
if you just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar --
Make people feel like winners.
-- Michael LeBoeuf --
Attitude is everything.
-- Phillip Crosby --
Learning is not attained by chance.
It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-- Abigail Adams --
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be.
-- William Feather --
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desire brings weak results,
just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill --
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
-- Jim Rohn --
Kites rise highest against the wind,
not with it.
-- Winston Churchill --
The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be lighted.
-- Plutarch --