Bill Rodgers Quotes

But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.