Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.
Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding but applying pressure will.
Never complain about what you permit to be.
People love being around those who serve them.
Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.
Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.
It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.
The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.
Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.
When the urgent crowds out the important people urgently accomplish nothing of value.
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
To live the life you've always wanted you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
Until you accept responsibility for your life someone else runs your life.
If you accept excuses from others it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.
Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.
A passive mindset manages to live with mediocre but an active mindset leads to change until excellence results.
The gap between intentions and actions is character.
A person doesn't feel then act; rather he acts then feels. Change actions to change feelings.
Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards.
Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.
Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.
Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.
Absolute power doesn't corrupt but rather reveals character.
You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.
You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.
Victims blame managers maintain and leaders change.
Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.
Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.
The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.
Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.
Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.
People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.
Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.
New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.
When a leader buys his own excuses he also unfortunately sells them to his team.
People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship Reason and Results.
You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.
No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.
Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?
The more prepared you are the less pressure you feel.
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
Without courage it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.
Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.
Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment but with long term benefits.
Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.
What people say about you good or bad is not nearly as important as what you are.
Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
You can succeed beyond the past but not beyond your belief
If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good then being in biz with you is bad experience.
I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
Change is a given; growth however is optional.
You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
You either hate losing enough to change or you hate changing enough to lose.
Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.
The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.
Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.
Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.
Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.
Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.
The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.
It's not about what you're capable of it's about what you are willing to endure.
Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
He who controls the fools gold controls the fools.
Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.
Many times in life those who do the most correcting need the most correcting.
Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
Sadly when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose he usually ends up losing both.
Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.
There are no dead ends in life only dead end thinking.
Most people live with pleasant illusions but leaders must deal with hard realities.
Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.
Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles but the size of your dream.
You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.
Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.
Leadership Principle: As hunger increases excuses decrease.
Simply put the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
Few lack talent but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
Few lack talent but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.
You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.
Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.
It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.
Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.
A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.
Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.
Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
If you get your spirit and heart right everything else flows from there.
The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.
Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.
Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset but a lifetime mindset.
Winners learn from the past live in the present and lead into the future.
Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.
The more you free your heart from sin the more your heart is free to serve.
I would rather face my fears than lose but most people would rather lose than face their fears.
I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.
Leaders who won't own failures become failures.
If you fill your head with positive thoughts there won't be any room left for negative ones.
Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.
Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.
It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.
Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.
A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.
The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.
Happiness comes from serving others.
You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.
Break your bad labels instead of living in them.
You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.
Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
In a world that loves lies truth is subject to the greatest libels.
Leadership isn't what a team says but what it does.
Success for most people requires unlearning as much as learning.
Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?
Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth but we teach the opposite.
You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.