Quotes from Mark McCormack

People retire to do what I do every day.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Short-term can be terminal.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.