“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”  Michael Jordan

“The one and only personality trait the effective [leaders] I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have: they had little or no ‘charisma’ and little use either for the term or what it signifies.” Peter Drucker

“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.”  John Templeton

“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!”  Earl Nightingale

“I change my mind when the facts change. What do you do?”  John Maynard Keynes

“The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”  Katherine Whitehorn

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”  Warren Buffett

“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” BC Forbes

“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.”  Albert Einstein

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”  John Wooden

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One of the the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.”  Stephen R. Covey