“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
— Jack Welch, businessman
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
— Thucydides (c. 472 BC – c. 400 BC). He was an ancient Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This quote was relayed to me by my friend, Chase Kovel.
“Whether you say you or you can't, you're right.”
— Henry Ford, businessman, heard this from a sales leader in sales QBR at Cribl
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”
— Ted Turner, businessman, heard when Arnold Schwarzenegger quoted Ted in the Netflix documentary about Arnold's life.