Jeff Duntemann

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

I gave up the guitar in 1965. Didn’t want to see a guitar. I’d go out and get drunk. When I came out of the heart surgery, the doc said, “Promise me you’ll work hard.” I said, “I thought working hard is what got me here.” He said, “No, working is what will keep you alive.”

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of Are makes a small amount of heat.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Use your work to better yourself.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the do’er, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.