Quotes About Growth

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

It is the loss side on which you must focus first

Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.—UNKNOWN

It finally occurred to me that maybe studying losses was more important than searching for some Holy Grail to making money.

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth-grade chairs so small–so you won't fit in them at age 25.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.