"Work hard, play hard" - John Greiber motto
"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't." -Harvey Mackay
"If you have a problem that money can solve, you have no problem" -Harvey Mackay
"A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins."- Harvey Mackay
"You don't have to know everything, as long as you know people who know the things you don't." -Harvey Mackay
"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in you life." -Harvey Mackay
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand" -Randy Pausch ✔️
"You miss 100% of the shots you do not drink"
"Either you like me or you don't, and if you don't I really don't give a damn." -Brock Lesnar
"Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice" -Stephen Covey
You can't control the results, but what you CAN and DO control is your effort.
"If you have never failed, you have never lived"
"You have to lose some battles to win the war"
"The most important thing to invest in is yourself" - Warren Buffet
"It's not what you say, it's only what people hear" - Frank Luntz
"Look at what you do have, not what you don't"
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse." -Jim Rohn
Live and learn
Money doesn't make me happy, but it does put a smile on my face. - Todd Sherstad
"If you want to be a big fish, find a small pond." -Sid Sherstad
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln
"Don't give up. Don't ever give up." -Jim Valvano
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -JK Rowling
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" -Benjamin Franklin
I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone
"Republicans buy shoes too" - MJ
Surround yourself with jobs that deal with a lot of money and you will make a lot of money
"When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, & in the manner in which you live" -Stuart Scott
"You can die for your country, I'm going to live for mine" - Lone Survivor
ABC: Always Be Closing
"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today" -African Proverb
"Work hard to play harder" -Linda Rawson
It's not about money or connections―it's the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone...And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.― Mark Cuban
Play chess, not checkers -Ryan Greiber
"Keep smiling and stay happy" -Grandpa Burke
"20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain ✌🏼️🇺🇸
"Travel is the only thing you spend money on that makes you richer" - Unknown
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry. - The Big Short Movie
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world” -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
“At the end of the day all that matters is love and memories so make sure you give it and make sure you make them.” – Trent Shelton
"Alcohol won't solve your problems! Then again, neither will milk." -Salisbury bar, London
"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast." - Winston Chuchill
"I haven't been everywhere, buts it's on my list." -Susan Sontag
"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childhood wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." - Bill Bryson
"I don't start fires to put them out" - Some KPMG guy
Empty space is not nothing; it is a powerful something. Learn to see it.
"I am not afraid of the world, but I am afraid of people who are afraid of the world." -Elizabeth Gilbert
Being married is like eating cheese pizza every night
"To achieve great thing, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." -Leonard Bernstein
Without challenge, there is no achievement
"I can live for two months on a good compliment" - Mark Twain
"If comfort is what you desire, then growth is not in your future."
"I am fooling only myself when I say my father exists now only in the photograph on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. He lives on beneath everything I do. His presence influenced who I was, and his absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us, as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide." -Hope Edelman
When things don't go right, go left
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life
"You may be smarter than me, but you won't out work me." -Michael Bloomberg
United we stand, divided we fall
"I never lose. I either win or learn" -Nelson Mandela
"You cannot be anything you want to be- but you can be a lot more of who you already are" -StrengthsFinder Book
“Don't worry about what you could do if you lived your life over; get busy with what's left.” - Harvey Mackay
Tell me a story. — Every Child
“Beer has food like properties, but food does not have beer like properties.” - Connor Knuth
“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” - Dr. Adrian Rodgers
"You cannot control the wind, but you can direct the sail."
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful" - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman's report, 2004
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr Seuss
“It’s a zero sum game. Somebody wins, somebody loses”
“Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest” (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it) - Latin maxim
"Do what is too hard for others to do. Work as hard in the offseason as you do when it's peak season.”
“Friendship is like a bank account. You can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
"As long as you agree with 80%, that's good enough for me." -Ronald Reagan
"What's dangerous is not to evolve" - Jeff Bezos
"You can never drive forward, when looking at the rearview mirror"
"Swing hard and pray" -A smart man
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
"Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation" - Post Malone
Happy wife happy life
"If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet" -Hostel in Sydney
"I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could have had a piece of cake tonight" - Gabriel Iglesias
"In dog beers I've only had one" -Bar in Queenstown
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” - Confucius
“The harder you work, the better vacation your boss goes on”
“I am what you call a CEO for church… Christmas Easter Only” - The Radio
"Drinking can't be bad for the body. It's good for your soul, which is part of the body" -Mark Oldani
"Dreams are free" -Anonymous
"Success is doing what you like and making a living at it" -Proverb
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant" -Robert Louis Stevenson
"Will over skill" -Erika Perrault
"The best leaders don't climb to the top, they are carried" -Best Buy CEO
"What happens to things that don't bend" -GoT
“Fail big. You only live one. Do what you feel passionate about. Take chances (professionally) and do not be afraid to fail.” - Denzel Washington
"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed" -US Navy Admiral
"Respect Everyone" -US Navy Admiral
"Keep your mouth shut and be a sponge" -TJ Watt
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been” - Wayne Gretzky
"There is no substitute for quality" - Harvey Mackay
"3rd down and 7 is not the most important thing in life"
"Always remember that you're the driver of your bus. If you don't take responsibility for your life and control your bus, then you can't take it to where you want to go. If you're not the driver then you're always at the whim of everyone else's travel plans." -Jon Gordon
"If you do not ask, the answer is always no."
“Life is too short to be living someone else’s dream” - Hugh Hefner
“Kill them with kindness” - A lot of people… but heard it first from my Mom
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words." - Deborah Bull
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” -Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia founder)
“Everything before the word but is horse shit” -Jon Snow
“A stranger is a friend I haven’t met yet.” -100yr lady on a Ted Talk
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Winning is your internal belief about what you think is important to you and how you can spread that to other people - to influence them to do the things that are important to them.” - John Greiber (Influenced by Uncle Herb)
“When motivation dissipates, discipline needs to take over” - Doug Lennick
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile” -Albert Einstein
“Money is predictable; people aren’t as predictable”
“Do it with passion, or not at all” - Marie-Christine Legault
“Relationships begin with hello” - Mitch Doren
“You complain about process when you’re losing” - Mitch McConnell (Senate Majority Leader)
“If you are not getting better, you are getting worse”
“Takin’ Sips Winnin’ ‘Ships” -Coors Light Bar sign
“He worked really hard Grandma… So do washing machines.” -Griswold Family Christmas
“Twenty Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.” -Mark Twain
“Live like a student” -Mark Cuban (One of his 9 roles to getting rich)
“Plant Seeds - 1% of the seeds turns into 50% of the flowers. Plant lots of seeds.” -James Altucher
“Beware the investment activity that produces applause, the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.” -Warren Buffet
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” -Frank Sinatra
“The more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish.” - Sean Covey in The 4 Disciplines of Execution
“People play differently when they are keeping score.” - Sean Covey in The 4 Disciplines of Execution
“Says easy, does hard” - Quote in The 4 Disciplines of Execution
“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” -Michael J. Fox
“I don’t know what the word permanent means.” -Donald J Trump
Books:
-The 4 Disciplines of Execution - Sean Covey
“You don’t need to be loved by everyone, just a few good people” - The Greatest Showman
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” -Simon Sinek
"I'm playing the best ball of my life and drinking wine pretty much every day." - LeBron James
Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin
“The first to apologize is the bravest, the first to forgive is the strongest, and the first to forget is the happiest”
“His passion for tequila exceeds his tolerance” -Pancho’s brother in narcos
“I have to do it myself, but I can’t do it alone”
“Constantly upgrade your problems” -Bill Williams
“Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers, however they do have more fun” -Owner of Old Town Ale House Chicago
“When you are going through hell, keep going” -Winston Churchil
“When a storm is coming... cows walk away. Buffalo charge away”
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” - Bob Marley
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader
“None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledge someone’s help is a big part of understanding the important of saying thank you.” -Harvey Mackay
“Stay off the computer and stay with people” -Bill Williams
“If I can’t trust you, we are done.” -Bill Williams
“Those who embrace the suck the most will win the most” -Bill Williams
“A great entrepreneur knows how to leverage its resources.” -Jon Randall (Ameriprise FC)
“Just keep swimming” -Nemo
“The trouble is, you think you have time”
“We don’t speak very good Spanish, but we speak pretty good rock n roll. Lets go” -AC/DC
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. -Steve Jobs
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, you shouldn’t laugh.” -Roger Erny
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
“Sometimes the world decides for you”
“Train while others are playing. Read while others are watching. Listen while others are ignoring. Love while others are hating. Play while others are regretting.”
“It’s incredible what can happen when you’re not afraid of failure, but you embrace it as an opportunity to learn and grow.” -Richard Branson
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” -Warren Buffet
“Take care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers.” -J.W. Marriott
“The best way to be invited into the future is to preform well today.” - Ameriprise Development Class
“Failure is one more step to success” (My Dad’s motto)
“If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. Means ‘First Attempt In Learning’. End is not the end. In fast, E.N.D. means ‘Effort Never Dies’. If you get a NO as an answer, remember N.O., which means ‘Next Opportunity’. Positive thinking!!!”
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
“Be groovy or leave, man” - Bob Dylan
“I once heard it said of man that the idea is to die young, as late as possible” - George Bush
“[H.W.] was born with two settings... full throttle and sleep.” - George Bush
“Take care of your employees and they will take care of your business. It’s as simple as that.” -Richard Branson
“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” - Norman Vincent Peale (The Dash Book)
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” - Paul Boese (The Dash Book)
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone moments, but hat is woven into the lives of others” - Pericles (The Dash Book)
"You are best at work when you are balanced at life" - Bill Williams
Life can change on a Dime" - Michelle Hirsh
"Life is short, hug often." - Michelle Hirsh
"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there." - Zig Ziglair
“Society will vilify your success. If you do something that others can't do, you earn every dollar for that ability” - Bill Williams
“Don’t talk about your damn wine, drink it” -Anthony Bourdain
“Wall Street is the only place that someone drives up in a Rolls Royce to get advice from someone who took a Subway." -Warren Buffet
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten” -Rudyard Kipling
“Don’t bet on consumer ignorance” - Bill Williams
“Write the damn check”
“It’s better to be approximately right than precisely wrong” - Warren Buffet
“Leadership begins with your self leadership”
“Do or do not, there is not try” -Yoga
“To get what others don’t, you have to be willing to do what others won’t”
Dick Bennett “They asked him: ‘Is this one of the greatest feelings that you've ever had, getting to the Final Four?’ “He said: ‘From a feeling state, euphoria, yes, it is. But it doesn't compare with faith, with kids, family, grandkids. Because I know what truly matters, it enables me to enjoy what seems to matter like this.’
"Have a great day! Unless you made other plans." - Mary Ellis’ Grandma
Features tell, benefits sell
“Don’t read your own press clippings. Stay hungry.” -Marcus Ranger
“Martinis are like boobs. 1 is not enough and 3 are too many.” - John Greiber