“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

“Imagen es lo que la gente piensa que somos. Integridad es lo que en realidad somos.” 

“As long as you are hanging around amateurs, you will think like an amateur, and you will not improve your skills.”

“People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.”

“Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

“The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.”

“Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.”

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“The Courage to Teach,” 

“Several years ago Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s book, Psycho-Cybernetics, was one of the most popular books on the market. Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who often took disfigured faces and made them more attractive. He observed that in every case, the patient’s self-image rose with his and her physical improvement. In addition to being a successful surgeon, Dr. Maltz was a great psychologist who understood human nature. A wealthy woman was greatly concerned about her son, and she came to Dr. Maltz for advice. She had hoped that the son would assume the family business following her husband’s death, but when the son came of age, he refused to assume that responsibility and chose to enter an entirely different field. She thought Dr. Maltz could help convince the boy that he was making a grave error. The doctor agreed to see him, and he probed into the reasons for the young man’s decision. The son explained, “I would have loved to take over the family business, but you don’t understand the relationship I had with my father. He was a driven man who came up the hard way. His objective was to teach me self-reliance, but he made a drastic mistake. He tried to teach me that principle in a negative way. He thought the best way to teach me self-reliance was to never encourage or praise me. He wanted me to be tough and independent. Every day we played catch in the yard. The object was for me to catch the ball ten straight times. I would catch that ball eight or nine times, but always on that tenth throw he would do everything possible to make me miss it. He would throw it on the ground or over my head but always so I had no chance of catching it.” The young man paused for a moment and then said, “He never let me catch the tenth ball—never! And I guess that’s why I have to get away from his business; I want to catch that tenth ball!”

“Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.”

“Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.”

“It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position. "

“Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.”