“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren’t a garbage truck.

Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers’ motives.

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action.

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don’t unless you impose limits on yourself.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.

You know, you don’t need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.

In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.