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Strategy is all about commitment. If what you’re doing isn’t irrevocable, then
you don’t have a strategy—because anyone can do it…. I’ve always wanted to
treat life like I was an invading army and there was no turning back.

—Troy Tyler, entrepreneur

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on
that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that
idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

—Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu monk

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or
because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we
must move forward or die.

—Stanley Bing, pen name of Gil Schwartz, business humorist and novelist

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.

—Brian Tracy, author

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain
credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I
needed to ignore the skeptics.

—Bianca Jagger, social and human rights advocate