“Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.”
“The road to success is always under construction… there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.”
“All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfil your dreams!”
“We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.”
“Don’t set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.”
“We’re all self-made, but only successful people admit it.”
“The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don’t really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!”
“I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill.”
“People want to be led by strong leaders, and good leaders are constant students.”
“There’s no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!”
“We all have baggage from our upbringing! That’s life!”
“Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan – is nothing more than a pipe dream!”
“A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.”
“Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.”
“High performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!”
“I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!”
“I can work 5-10 hrs. straight with no problem, though I do take towards the end of a 6-8 hr. work stint some time out to beat myself severely in the gym with weights/aerobics, including intervals!”
“If you want to make more money, you’ll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.”
“As I have said many times – no 1 loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can’t really love yourself, you can’t love anything you do!”
“The world is full of people who want their ears tickled on strategies for wealth creation and protection and so-called revealed secrets to wealth creation. And there are plenty of slick ‘business coaches’ who are more than willing to do just that – for a fee. This is the world of the seminar guru.”
“In late May 1993, I gave my first QLA Seminar at the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles.”
“Good leaders make sense of change in the world… then imparts that insight to the team.”
“Never start small where goals are concerned. You’ll make better decisions – and find it much easier to work a lot harder – when your ultimate goal is ultimate success.”
“Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.”
“The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.”
“We must all remember life doesn’t have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.”
“Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!”
“I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!”
“The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would – in the face of overwhelming obstacles!”
“Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry.”
“Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic!”
“Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face – people don’t lack goals, passion, grit, or drive – they lack leadership!”
“If you don’t embrace a workload others would consider crazy, then your goal doesn’t mean that much to you.”
“The Internet is a giant ‘lab experiment’ for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.”
“Next time, you question what you are doing – ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!”
“Once you learn to make money, it is not that hard… what’s hard is to stay excited about it.”
“People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball – but few people think about ‘practicing being successful.’ I had practiced meeting the Queen of England – what I would wear, how I would stand, the handshake – so when I did meet her, I was comfortable – for I had practiced the moment for years.”
“Progress often masquerades as trouble.”
“I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a ‘talent’ feels a little strange – but well within my comfort zone!”
“When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!”
“The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals – especially at the extreme levels!”
“I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and – more importantly – our future!”
“The Internet has allowed even more growth possible than in the bricks and mortar industries that I dealt with years ago. It is easier to get a business to a million dollars/pounds in revenue on the net! It is not easy! But it is easier when compared to construction, etc., though all businesses use the Internet to enhance marketing.”
“High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!”
“You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don’t let others stop you from reaching your goals.”
“All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!”
“You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you’d be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don’t approve of the man or the message.”
“You have to have faith in people.”
“Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.”
“Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don’t have great litigators.”
“I know what it’s like to have a house repossessed… I’ve been there.”
“I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything!”
“Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.”
“Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.”
“Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.”
“Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term ‘comfort zone,’ showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.”
“I have been following what is now called the ‘Spartan Way’ long before it became popular!”
“When I came back from the military and completed a 4-year degree in 2 1/2 years, I developed the extraordinary habits needed to get a lot done in a very short period of time!”
“QLA is not about filling your brain with information – it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!”
“Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won’t do. They go where others won’t go because there’s a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.”
“When you truly believe in your idea or your company or yourself, then you don’t need to have a huge ego or a huge personality.”
“As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!”
“I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.”
“I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!”
“My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can’t or won’t take action!”
“As I have told many, the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age of reason! He had no aspirations for me vis-a-vis education, wealth, or anything else!”
“My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!”
“By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!”
“It is extremely gratifying to see success like exhibited by the founders of Instagram!”
“It took me 8 years to graduate from undergraduate school because I kept ‘communism from your door steps’ for 3 1/2 years in between while serving in the U.S. Army.”
“We are only as emotionally strong as our deepest/biggest secret!”
“I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don’t, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.”
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