Quotes from Jon Gordon

Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth

Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means 'inspired' or 'filled with the divine.

Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits and habits create the future.

it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process

Driving a positive, high-performing culture requires more than words. After all, everyone has a mission statement, but only the great organizations also have people who are on a mission.

Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome.

Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.

Strategy is important. Execution is imperative. However, the most overlooked aspect in team sports, and what most coaches and leaders fail to grasp, is the fact that it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy works and is sustainable. It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.

I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling].

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.