“The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.”

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

Don’t be worried about the next man – make sure your business tight.

There’s no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

I’m not interested in what other people are doing. That’s their business.

I’ll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I’ll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it’s a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

I’m one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.