• “John O’Neill, a business leadership consultant, says it well in his book Leadership Aikido: “A plan is nothing more than a road map to a destination that will leave you changed-a different person from the one that started the trip”” Wealth in Families Third Edition (Charles W. Collier) Page 91
  • “Do not limit yourself to thinking in the present. Think above and beyond. Do not be bound by this age; aim to create a new age that will delight people throughout the world.” Masayoshi Son
  • “In an April 2 interview in Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, posted on the April 12 on-line Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Son was asked why SoftBank was expanding business at such a torrid pace. His answer: “A company’s value is determined by challenge and evolution. A company that only defends whatever it has achieved will not grow bigger and stronger; it will only sink below an evolving world above.””
  • “Successful people have a clear future orientation. They think five, ten, and twenty years out into the future. They analyze their choices and behaviors in the present to make sure that what they are doing today is consistent with the long-term future they desire.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 26
  • “10/90 Rule. This rule says that the first 10 percent of the time that you spend planning and organizing your work before you begin will save you as much as 90 percent of the time in getting the job done once you get started.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 18
  • “Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 17
  • “You may have heard of the Six-P Formula. It says, “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 15
  • “The good news is that every minute spent in planning saves as many as ten minutes in execution.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 15
  • “The very act of thinking and planning unlocks your mental powers, triggers your creativity, and increases your mental and physical energies. Conversely, as Alec Mackenzie wrote, “Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 14
  • “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein
  • “An average plan vigorously executed is far better than a brilliant plan on which nothing is done. For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 12
  • “The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives, and they don’t deviate from them. The greater clarity you have regarding what you want and the steps you will have to take to achieve it, the easier it will be for you to overcome procrastination, eat your frog, and complete the task before you.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 9
  • “There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.” Napoleon Hill
  • “Before I figured out how time actually works, I put in twice as many hours and got half as much done. Everything changed when I figured out the secret of Einstein Time. Now I work half as much and get at least twice as much done. Even though I understand the science behind that shift, it still seems like a miracle to me…One immediate payoff of getting the correct understanding of time is that you feel less stressed as you go through your day. That’s good, but there’s an even bigger reward: you free up time for creative thinking.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 159
  • “I’ve also found that entrepreneurs are often most receptive to one of my core beliefs: that business is ultimately a spiritual path.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level(Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 203
  • “Priority No. 1: creating things that make people’s lives better. I also do my best to create things that make their faces light up, just like biting into a watermelon on a hot day. By focusing on those qualities, I wake up each day knowing I’m going to spend my time creating value and delight. I’ve lived in that state of consciousness for decades now. It’s what I love, and what I wish for you. The best job of all is doing something that doesn’t feel like a job at all.” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 213
  • “Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term. Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, think more about short-term pleasure and immediate gratification while giving little thought to the long-term future.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 26
  • “1. What are your three most important business or career goals right now? 2. What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? 3. What are your three most important financial goals right now? 4. What are your three most important health goals right now? 5. What are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now? 6. What are your three most important social and community goals right now? 7. What are your three biggest problems or concerns in life right now?” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 51
  • “There is one universal rule of planning: You will never be greater than the vision that guides you” Alliance for Non-profit Management. Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 105
  • “The chairman of Coca-Cola once said, ‘If every truck, warehouse, and bottling plant we own burned to the ground tonight, and if every bottle and can of Coke on store shelves in the world was emptied in the fight to put out the fires, it would not diminish the value of our company by one cent. The value of our company lies in the hearts, minds, and intentions of our employees, and in the goodwill, we have built with our customers of the years.”Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 131
  • “I studied the work of Teresa Amabile of the Harvard Business School. She is one of the country’s foremost experts on business innovation and she said, “All innovation begins with creative ideas.” Okay, I said to myself, that makes sense, but how do you define a creative idea? What is it? Over time I came up with this simple explanation: A creative idea is one that’s new and useful. A new idea that isn’t useful, I reasoned, isn’t worth much in the business world. I could design a car with square wheels, it would be new and different, but it wouldn’t be of much use. Later I’d come to realize that this definition transcended business, for it also applied to science, entertainment, and even the arts.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 13
  • “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 13
  • “In other words, creative thought is the search for an idea that already exists, not the act of waiting for one to pop into your head.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 14
  • “The Origin of a Creative Idea: Step One: Defining Define the problem you’re trying to solve. Step Two: Borrowing Borrow ideas from places with a similar problem. Step Three: Combining Connect and combine these borrowed ideas. The Evolution of a Creative Idea: Step Four: Incubating Allow the combinations to incubate into a solution. Step Five: Judging Identify the strength and weakness of the solution. Step Six: Enhancing Eliminate the weak points while enhancing the strong ones.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 24-25
  • “Albert Einstein I read his thoughts: “The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution.”” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 34
  • “Although you’re wired to solve problems, you’re not wired to accurately define them. In the fight for survival, which determined your inherent characteristics, the ability to make a quick decision was more important than the ability to make an accurate one. You’re wired for speed and not precision. Imagine your ancient ancestor observing the rustling of the grass approaching him on the prehistoric savannah. This was either a saber-toothed tiger or the wind blowing the tall grass. The ancestor who made a quick decision to run was the one who survived, passing this trait to you; the one who stayed to determine the source of the rustling grass was more apt to be eaten by the tiger. His genes, and aptitude for problem analysis, were taken out of the gene pool long before modern times. Speed of thought is in your genetic makeup. It served your ancestors well with life-threatening problems, but now causes you to misdiagnose the not-so-life-threatening ones you now face.” Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others (David Kord Murray) Page 35
  • “Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.” Meeting Your Goliath(Thomas S. Monson)-Kindle Loc. -82-83
  • “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts” Anonymous