"Strategy is about making trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different."
Michael Porter
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
Abraham Lincoln
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
Christopher Reeve
"In three minutes, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
Robert Frost
"If the world were blind, how many people would you impress?"
Boonaa Mohammed
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir
"Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Sweet Marden
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Gordon A. Eadie
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
Paulo Coelho
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mohatma Gandhi
"A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world."
Atticus
“…in the face of difficulty, we can despair, get angry … or choose POSSIBILITY…”
Rosamund Stone Zander
"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
Les Brown
"Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment."
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure."
Bob Bitchin
"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite."
Robert Half
"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."
Walt Disney
"You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing."
Ginni Rometty
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
Suzy Kassem
"Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"Amidst any chaos, any breakdown, any crumbling or changes, indeed something still is emerging."
Dr. Roger W. Teel
"Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions."
Henry Mintzberg
"Let go or be dragged."
Zen Proverb
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
Napoleon Hill
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
Abraham Maslow
"Strategy is thinking about a choice and choosing to stick with your thinking."
Jeroen De Flander
"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
"Light tomorrow with today."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
Michael Porter
"The brain is wider than the sky."
Emily Dickinson
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."
Paulo Coelho
"Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
Meister Eckhart
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
T.S. Eliot
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