Orrin Woodward Quotes

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Success for most people requires unlearning as much as learning.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

People love being around those who serve them.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.