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There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'
Lao Tzu
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
Lucille S. Harper
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
John C. Maxwell
The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.
Barry Werner
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
Anthea Turner
The best way to get something done is to begin.
Unknown
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically, to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside.
Stephen Covey
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Alan Lakein
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas Edison
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein
Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter
Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Todd Park
Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Innovation is the key to success in this new era of globalization.
John McCain
Innovation is the lifeblood of productivity and growth.
Gary Shapiro
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how you use your skills and how you approach your work.
Seth Godin
Success is not a one-time event. It's a habit.
Unknown
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
Zig Ziglar
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything.
Warren Buffett
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.
Brian Tracy
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington
Discipline is the fuel of achievement.
Unknown
Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.
Unknown
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment, and it's the only thing that separates success from failure.
John Rohn
Discipline is the most important trait for success in any endeavor.
Unknown
Discipline is the foundation of a successful and happy life.
Unknown
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on the task at hand and not get distracted by the noise around them.
Unknown
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on their goals and not get sidetracked by distractions.
Unknown
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on their strengths and not get bogged down by their weaknesses.
Unknown
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on the present moment and not get caught up in worries about the future or regrets about the past.
Unknown
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on what they can control and not get overwhelmed by what they can't.
Unknown
The successful person is the one who is able to focus on their priorities and not get distracted by the urgent but unimportant tasks that can consume our time.
Unknown
The only way to do great work is to first love yourself.
Unknown
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
The function of leadership is to make change happen.
Peter F. Drucker
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The function of leadership is to create more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Bang Gae
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker
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