Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"Forget about style; worry about results."

        - Bobby Orr

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

        - Thomas Edison

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

        - Winston Churchill

"Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space."

        - Rebecca West

"Ambition never comes to an end."

        - Yoshida Kenko

"The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel."

        - Charles Schwab

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

        - Samuel Beckett

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first." 

        - William Shakespeare

"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

        - Lee Iacocca

"Perceptions are important, but they make a poor substitute for insight."

        - Phil Knight

"Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it."

        - Henry Mintzberg

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

        - Thich Nhat Hanh

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success."

        - Henry Ford

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people cone to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car...a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little."

        - Ben Sweetland

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

        - James Allen

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

        - Confucius

"Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen."

        - Peter Brock

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

        - Abraham Lincoln

"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"

        - Charles Connolly

"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...on your powers, instead of your problems."

        - Paul J. Meyers

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

        - Cicero

"Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done."

        - A.E. Hotchner

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

        - Anthony Robbins

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

        - Abraham Lincoln

"Management works in the system; leadership works on the system."

        - Stephen R. Covey

"I have had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time."

        - Sam Walton

"Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.   The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there, too."

        - Victor Kiam

"I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."

        - Charles H. Mayo

"The worst crime against working people is a company that fails to operate at a profit."

        - Samuel Gompers