Dan Peña Quotes Page 3

“High-performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.”

“High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!”

“High-performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!”

“Human talent is the currency of the new economy.”

“Hunger makes beasts of men, and demons of beasts.”

“I can guarantee you, you will never achieve anything greater than your highest aspiration.”

“I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible – to act as if they could accomplish anything!”

“I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!”

“I do what you don’t want to do that you know you’ve got to do to be where you want to be.”

“I have been following what is now called the 'Spartan Way' long before it became popular!”

“I have no more mountains left to climb - but myself!”

“I know what it's like to have a house repossessed... I've been there.”

“I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!”

“I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!”

“I’ve never seen a 'part-time' super successful, high-performance person.”

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. The person who puts them into action is priceless.”

“If love got the job done, most parents would have produced high performers — it doesn’t!”

“If you change a billion lives, that's the formula to become a billionaire and change the world.”

“If you don't think money can buy happiness, you don't know where to shop.”

“If you don’t embrace a workload others would consider crazy, then your goal doesn’t mean that much to you.”

“If you left it to engineers, no car would ever come off the assembly line.”

“If you want things to change, first you have to change.”

“If you want to make more money, you’ll have to do things differently. You will have to do things you never even thought of doing in the past. You will have to do things out of your comfort zone.”

“If you want to travel above and beyond the herd, don't try to be better. Try to be different. Or better yet, be first!”

“Ignorance is a steep hill with jagged rocks at the bottom.”

“In order to really succeed in business, you must have outside advisors. These must be trusted advisors, professionals at your accounting and law firms with whom you have a very special relationship. These advisors become your moles within their own organization, more loyal to you than their employer… motivated, aggressive, ambitious and bright enough - but not as bright as he or she thinks.”

“It costs nothing to aim high - but if you aim at nothing, you'll hit anything.”

“It doesn't matter what morons say.”

“It is my ambition to say in four words what others say in a whole book.”

“It is not important what we do, but whom we do it with!”