Quotes

• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
• “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” - Henry Ford
• “Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.” - Carl von Clausewitz
• “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” - Henry David Thoreau
• “What focus means is saying no to something that you [think]-with every bone in your body-is a phenomenal idea. And you wake up thinking about it. And you say no to it because you're focusing on something else.” - Steve Jobs
• “Positions are seldom lost because they have been destroyed, but almost invariably because the leader has decided in his own mind that the position cannot be held.” — A. A. Vandegrift
• “Your life is what your thoughts make it” - Marcus Aurelius
• “The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.” - Bill Walsh
• “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.” ― Epictetus
• “One more point: A good player never stops until he’s actually out, running as hard for first base on the almost-certain-to-be-caught fly or grounder as he would if he were sprinting the 100-yard dash. If Henry Ford hadn’t kept going in the early days despite ridicule, we would never have seen the Ford car. It’s been much the same with almost every great man you could name. He kept plugging when everybody said his chances of making first base were nil. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth
• “Success is stumbling from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
• “If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.” - Ernest Hemingway
• “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem, and then five minutes solving it.” - Einstein
• “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell
• “I had been told that "everyone knew" about the "phony oil leases." But over and over again during years of research, I have been taught that things that "everyone knew" often turn out, when investigated, to be without factual basis.” - Robert Caro
• “To deliberate maturely and execute promptly is the way to conduct it to advantage.” - George Washington
• “The key is not the 'will to win'...everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” - Bob Knight
• “With enough persistence the impossible becomes possible.” - Vinod Khosla
• “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.” - Jim Mattis
• “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abe Lincoln
• “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - CG Jung
• “Besides, it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. But you cannot see that, if you are careless; for it will not come of its own accord.” - Socrates”
• “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher
• “I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say." - Calvin Coolidge
• “You gotta learn to do the things you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do them. This is the NFL.” - Nick Saban
• “America must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.” - Pvt. Martin Treptow
• “You want to make history you have to do historic things” - Kobe Bryant
• “Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.” - Lou Brock
• “If a young man makes up his mind to work, there’s no limit to what he can do. But if he makes up his mind to go at it without the idea of work, why he hasn’t much chance. He must study and work and he must go back in any art as far as he can to dig up the very beginning. The more he goes back, the further he will be able to see ahead.” - Henry Ford
• “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• “The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” - John Adams
• “I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.” - Marshall McLuhan
• “One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. And I’ve made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I got the scar tissue to prove it.” - Steve Jobs
• “I’m out there, I suit up every night. I suit up every night. Banged up, hurt, whatever. 100%, 30%, ain’t no numbers - it’s in my heart, and you can’t measure that.” - Kevin Garnett