For the 5 Pieces of Inspiration for earlier dates, select the menu item on the left that matches the date you are looking for.
Presentation Date:
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
- “At age 20, we worry what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover that they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers
- “I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.” – Daniel Petrie
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Never put an age limit on your dreams.” – Dara Torres
Presentation Date: July 10, 2018
- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
Presentation Date: July 3, 2018
- “Everyone you met knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye
- “If you aren’t networking, you aren’t working.” – Dennis Waitley
- “It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically” – Meg Jay
- “Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “It is through the strength of what is genuine that meaningful connections build into relationships.” – Michelle Tillis Lederman
Presentation Date: June 26, 2018
- “Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it’s possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process.” – Germany Kent
- “All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” – Tom Peters
- “Personal branding is about managing your name – even if you don’t own a business – in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your ‘blind’ date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.” – Tim Ferris
- “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Personal Branding is all about your unique promise of value and what you bring to the table. It’s (also) about getting your potential clients to choose you as the only solution to your problem.” – Dr. Sarah David
Presentation Date: June 19, 2018
- “I’m all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.” – Kyla Pratt
- “So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.” – Noreena Hertz
- ”I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.” – Russell Wilson
- ”Your mindset matters.It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.” – Peter Diamndis
- “Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.” – Travis Bradberry
Presentation Date: June 12, 2018
- “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.” – Laurie Anderson
- “All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.” – Cher
- “I believe that success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” – Zig Ziglar
Presentation Date: June 5, 2018
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
- “Be so good that they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “To succeed in life you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.” – Reba McIntire
- “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
- “You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
Presentation Date: May 29, 2018
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandi
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them and that’s really powerful.” – Reid Hoffman
- “Know where you want to go and make sure that the right people know about it.” – Meredith Mahoney
- “Networking is the number 1 unwritten rule of success in business.” – Sallie Krawcheck
- “Business Tip: Networking. When you meet a person and collect their contact information don’t just add them to your email list. Call them and invite them out to chat, so that you can build a genuine relationship that has merit.” – Wendy Nicole Anderson
- “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering
- “The difference between setting a goal and achieving it is having a good plan and working it.” – Les Brown
- “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo
- “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” – Jack Welch
- “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
- “I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.” – Lindsey Wixsen
- “I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” – Marlene Dietrich
- “Your wardrobe should complement your skill set, never detract – or distract – from your assets.” – Nina Garcia
- “There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage. I’m looking at my closet now and everything is garbage.” – Jenny Han
- “When you put on a new cloth that fits you well, you put on a new confidence that improves your confidence well” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
- “You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” – Tom Brokaw
- “The main purpose of education isn’t just to receive a certification that leads to a career, but to become a well-rounded person in so many aspects of life.” – Edward Mbiaka
- “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
- “If you can’t relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you’re too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.” – Travis Bradberry
- “There’s no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they’ll probably Google you. It’s a shame – people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I’m angry about something, I’m not going to take to my Twitter.” – Patrick Stump
- “So many people out there have no idea what they want to do for a living, but they think that by going on job interviews they’ll magically figure it out. If you’re not sure, that message comes out loud and clear in the interview.” – Todd Bermont
- “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” – Yogi Berra
- “Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.” – Miles Anthony Smith
- “Effective networking isn’t a result of luck – it requires hard work and persistence.” – Lewis Howes
- “One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.” – Lewis Howes
- “One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.” – Reid Hoffman
- “While social media skills were once a ‘nice-to-have,’ accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.” – Ryan Holmes
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” – Steve Jobs
- “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
- “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent
- “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
- “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Everything can be taken from a man or woman but one thing: the last human freedom – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Victor Frankyl
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis
- “If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.” – Sir Richard Branson
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.” – Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus
- “How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.” – Dan Reiland
- “Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can’t buy. It’s an invisible energy with visible effects.” – Marianne Williamson
- “Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.” -Guy Kawasaki
- “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Bronte
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
- “You can’t just dream — you must get out there and do it.” – Billie Jean King
- “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better tomorrow.” – Simon Sinek
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.” – Sir Richard Branson
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
- “Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama, nor negativity. Just higher goals and higher motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy, nor hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other.” – Warren Buffet
- “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katharine Hepburn
- “The only problem we really have is we think we’re not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level — face and solve them now.” – Tony Robbins
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Everything you need will come to you at a perfect time.” – Socrates
- “Negativity always wins the short game. But positivity wins the long game.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “When I was young, I observed that 9 out of every 10 things I did were failures, so I did ten times the work.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Whatever we believe about ourselves and ability comes true for us.” – Susan Taylor
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” – Erica Jong
- “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “There is a difference between hearing people and listening to them.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angleou
- “Confidence is what we get when we take fear. face it and replace it.” – Tim Fargo
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
- “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt
- “Willpower by itself is not enough. If we want to achieve lasting change, we must have an effective strategy.” – Tony Robbins
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Ted Geisel aka Dr. Seuss
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “If you are putting your focus on outcomes that are larger than yourself, then the results will be great.”- Tony Robbins
- “Our best thoughts come from others.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” – Henrik Ibson
- “I believe that success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” – Zig Ziglar
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “When you are going through hell, keep going…” – Winston Churchill
- “You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.” – Les Brown
- “To have more, you must first be more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.” – Del Close
- “The biggest laughs I’ve ever had in my life are something going off the rails, something going
wrong, something happening that wasn’t supposed to happen. And improv teaches you not to fear those moments; that’s where the gold is.” – Conan O’Brien - “If you’re not having fun, you’re the asshole.” – Susan Messing
- “Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.” – Shigeo Shingo
- “Sometimes no problem is a sign of a different problem” – Mark Rosenthal, author of The Lean Thinker
- “Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.” – Shigeo Shingo
- “The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.” – Shigeo Shingo
- BONUS: “Copying your competitor won’t help you beat your competitor. You need to think beyond your competitor.” – Gerhard Plenert and Bill Kirchmier
