My favorite quotes from 2017…don’t miss number #5, it is a game changer.

A quote or anecdote can be one of those things that can change your attitude and your demeanor.  It is a little nugget of wisdom or insight that can open your mind up to a new thought, a new way, a new anything that can make your life better.

These are the quotes, the sayings, the anecdotes that struck a chord with me.  I either read them online or in the books that I read.  Please read them and share them.  I hope they inspire you to be everything you want to be.

• It doesn’t take money to make money.  It takes courage. —Grant Cardone. 
• When the pressure is on you don’t rise to the occasion.  You fall to the lowest level of your preparation for the situation.–Chris Voss 
• Being safe and in control go together, but for you to have the success you want you have to be willing to let go of both.–Brian Willett
• There are always at least five or six things that are more important than price. –Grant Cardone.
• Self justification is more powerful and more dangerous than the explicit lie. It allows people to convince themselves that what they did was the best thing they could have done.–From the book Mistakes were Made but not by me. 
• Blindspots enhance our pride and activate our prejudices. —Mistakes were made but not me book. 
• Memories create our stories, bit our stories also create our memories.
• Talent definition: Where you are gifted, doing what you love, and are somewhat skilled at doing it.– Ryan Holliday.
• Dont try to inspire someone with the fear fo dying, you instead of attempt to inspire them with the Joy Of Living. Change or Die book. 
• People don’t resist change, the resist being changed. Change or Die book.
• Consequences are a part of the learning process, without consequences we don’t learn as well or as fast.
• Nothing so conclusively proves a mans ability to lead others as what he does on a day-to-day basis to lead himself.
• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• Remember that you need to put your attention on what you can raise or lower the most. Ex: In business, you can only cut expenses by so much.  But how much revenue can you generate?  As much as you can.  Focus on generating revenue more than you do on cutting.
• Create systems in your life to have success.  Systems help determine your success.
• Every skill you develop doubles your chances of success. —Scott Adams
• The way we rate our experiences is at the peak of enjoyment and at the end of an experience.–Barry Schwartz.
• The longer the back story, the worse the deal. —Mark Cuban
• We gossip because we are too afraid to confront.–Kary Oberbrunner 
• I am not comparing myself to you, I am comparing myself to me and what my potential is.–Brian Willett
• The market rewards execution, not ideas.
• Life is too short to be living someone else’s dream—Hugh Hefner
• If you think the past impacts your present, you will never have a future.
• If you want better results or even some results. Get comfortable with discomfort. That is the path to growth.
• Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. –Oscar Wilde Value always trumps price.
• The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge–Stephen Hawking
• The hard part is not the dream or the idea, it is the doing. This is where most people fall short. Long on the ideas, but short on the doing.
• Opportunities are never lost, they are just taken by others.
• The difference between try and triumph, is a little UMPH.
• Two kinds of people you should never listen to: The ones who quit and the ones who never started
• Fear is a great indicator that you are moving in the right direction.
• Success doesn’t come from 8-5 Mon-Fri. It comes from pursuing it all of the time. It needs your total commitment. Not 1/3 of it.
• Few people actually know what they are capable of and even less want to find out.
• Remember wherever you are today was a choice. If you like it. Great. If you don’t. Make another choice. It is up to you.
• 88% of the wealthy spend 30+ minutes reading per day; 2% of the poor do.
• Quit watching the news and make your own news.
• Laziness is the root to all evil.
• Some people: “I don’t like to read” My response: “Do you like to be stupid?” Nobody will force you to learn, you have to do it yourself.
• Direction, not intention, determines destination.-Andy Stanley
• If you want to be a leader of people, you have to be a master of words. Robert Kiyosaki

Please share and inspire someone else today.

To your success and your future.