- 36 Quotes to
Live By
- by: Ryan P.
M. Allis
SUCCESS AND EXCELLENCE
1. Who you know is equally important
as what you know.
2. Success comes from both intelligence
and persistent diligence.
3. We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
4. Small people remain small
because they think small, act small, or don’t act at all.
5. Preparation is essential.
Understand the game before you play.
6. Do not rest on your accomplishments,
build on them and use the power of compounding.
7. Consistent quality outperforms
intermittent excellence.
8. I know I will be _________.
Therefore I will be ___________. Fill in the blank.
9. The magic combination for
business success is: planning + intelligence + hard work + networking
+ building systems + follow through.
10. The world is filled with
opportunities just waiting to be found by an energetic and intelligent
person.
11. A positive action left undone
loses the magic benefit of time: compounding.
12. Not a single person whose
name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.
13. Sow a thought, reap an action;
sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow
a character, reap a destiny. – Steven R. Covey
14. The rich build assets that
they use to purchase other assets. The poor only have expenses.
– Robert Kiyosaki
15. Failure defeats losers, failure
inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
16. Whatever the mind of man
can conceive and believe it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill
17. One can get anything if he
is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig
Ziglar
18. Great spirits have often
encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert
Einstein
KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
19. The secret to knowledge is
asking the right questions and being prepared for the people
you encounter.
20. Who you know is equally important
as what you know.
21. Learn from the best and never
stop learning. Learn actively and know how to learn independently.
The brain is one’s biggest investment.
22. The greatest risk of all
is not taking risk while one is young and learning from his or
her mistakes.
23. Since the way we learn is
by making mistakes, the greatest risk of all it to wait too long
to begin making those mistakes.
24. If one does not or cannot
apply what they’ve learned, they have learned nothing.
25. The abilities to adapt to
change and learn quickly are perhaps two of the most important
skills a modern human can have.
26. It’s not only what you
know; it’s how fast you learn what you don’t know.
Creative destruction works in business, markets, and with knowledge.
27. Just as money compounds,
so does knowledge and so do habits.
28. Thinking is the hardest work
there is. That is why so few people engage in it. - Henry Ford
29. Imagination is more important
that knowledge. – Albert Einstein
LIFE AND KEEPING IT REAL
30. Do not squander time for
that is the stuff life is made of.
31. When all resources; food,
wildlife, trees, fuel, are destroyed, man will not be able to
eat money.
32. Life is but a game, however,
in this game the rules are not revealed until well into the game;
and then, to only those courageous enough to seek them.
33. With life, what you get out
is directly proportional to how much energy and intelligence
you put in.
34. Seek to understand then be
understood. – Stephen R. Covey
35. Money has little value if
you are not happy. Be sure to have fun.
36. To have friends, invest time
in being a friend.
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Ryan P. Allis, 19, is an economics
major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
is the author of Zero to One Million, the founder of The Entrepreneurs
Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to building an
international network of entrepreneurs, founder of www.zeromillion.com, and CEO of Broadwick
Corporation, a provider of web based email list management software. |
