“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” – Henry Ford

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

“If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.” – Mike Ditka

“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” – Francis Bacon, Sr.

“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.” – Lee lacocca

“He suffered from paralysis by analysis.” – Harold S. Geneen

“Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.” – Plotinus

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” – Lee Iacocca

“It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run” – Charles F. Kettering

“The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” – Napoleon Hill

“We will intensify our efforts to build out our infrastructure overseas and to develop products that are tailored to individual markets.” – Sergey Brin

“There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.” – Sam Walton

“You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.” – Walt Disney

“Now the saying is you have to be global, we were global when global wasn’t cool.” – Roberto C. Goizueta

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan

“Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth—mental, financial, you name it.” – Harold S. Geneen

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

“You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.” – Ben Stein