Gene Babon > Gene's Quotes

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
― Warren Buffett

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
― Stephen McCranie

“Behind the clouds the sky is always blue.”
― Norwegian proverb

“There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“A degree on a wall means you’re educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you’re walking. It’s a start, but hardly sufficient.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“Learn from the past, but don’t live in the past.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
― H.E. Luccock

“I never lose. I either win or learn.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Serve your guests, not your ego. Being right is irrelevant.”
― Danny Meyer

“Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.”
― Zig Ziglar

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“You can be anything you wanna be?! Tell the kids the truth ... You can be anything you're good at ... as long as they're hiring.”
― Chris Rock

“Keep grinding always, but look around and enjoy the ride.”
― Rob Labritz

“Pay isn't a carrot to dangle to motivate people—it's a symbol of how much we value them.”
― Adam Grant

“Learning requires the humility to realize one has something to learn.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“If you're not prepared to lead your company through constant change, you're not going to be a CEO for long.”
― Alyson Shontell

“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”
― David Kelley

“Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.”
― W. Edwards Deming, What would Deming do?: Nurture great organizations and societies guided by W. Edwards Deming's best quotes

“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”
― Og Mandino

“Don't wait for perfection to celebrate your progress.”
― David Allen

“If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.”
― Jeff Bezos

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”
― Mark Twain

“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

“The more difficult the task, the sweeter the victory.”
― William T. Riker

“Sometimes a sling and a stone is all you need.”
― Cristóbal Valenzuela

“Where the mind goes, energy flows.”
― Ernest Holmes

“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course—the distance between your ears.”
― Bobby Jones

“The job of a leader is to deliver on two sometimes conflicting mandates: creating hope, and defining reality.”
― Ken Chenault

“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.”
― Alfred Ells, The Resilient Leader: How Adversity Can Change You and Your Ministry for the Better