J. T. McCormick Quotes

“Even a person who wins the lottery isn’t lucky. They took the first step of buying a ticket!”

“Everything in business comes down to focusing on people — your customers, your partners, and most importantly, your team. When you care about the people you’re serving, then results are easy.”

“I believe the role of leadership, at its core, is to serve and support the people you lead by way of teaching, coaching, and mentoring – with the ultimate goal of growing more leaders.”

“I’ve built a career out of asking questions.”

“No one works for me. They work with me.”

“Ask yourself who do you want to be going forward from here?”

“Don’t focus on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths. If you double-down on your strengths, you can be impeccable.”

“Refuse to use the word fail. You only fail if you stop trying.”

“Remove the words hope, wish and luck from your vocabulary. Replace those with 'believe'. If you truly believe in something, then you know in your mind, you’ve got to execute.”

“You can’t expect someone to love or believe in you if you don’t love and believe in yourself.”

“Attention to detail is a basic thing that will help you be successful.”

“Capitalism is not a bad thing. You can do more with money to give back to others than you can being broke.”

“Don’t let someone else define for you what success looks like.”

“How you treat people is how they will also treat people externally.”

“It doesn’t matter where you fall on the economic ladder, you don’t know what you don’t know.”

“It’s not about failing. You can make mistakes, but the key is to learn, grow, and not repeat those mistakes.”

“It’s not work-life balance. It’s just life.”

“It’s up to you as an individual to change your mindset.”

“People. Process. Profits. You find great people, you can build great process, you can make great profits.”

“The things that you do over and over are the things that help you grow as a company and as a person.”

“What did you do for others to help improve their lives, to teach, to share, to help grow?”

“You can’t change the past, but you can change how you view the story. Choose to take the positives from the harsh lessons that you went through.”

“You don’t want people to be satisfied, you want people to be fulfilled.”

“You only fail if you stop trying.”

“There’s a phrase in Zen Buddhism called beginner’s mind. It’s a state where a person is open, eager, and without any preconceived notions when learning something for the first time.”

“Touch the hole in your life, and there flowers will bloom.

– Zen proverb”

“Every day that you wake up and your feet hit the ground it’s an excellent day.”

“How do you balance life? For me it came down to five pillars: God, health, family, business and investing. If it doesn’t fall within those five things for me, I don’t do it.”

“I always want to continue to grow as a person continue to learn, continue to improve and do my part to make the world a better place.”

“I don’t care what I went through as a child. Anything from the sexual molestation, from my father was a pimp and drug dealer orphan mother, and I still don’t know where my last name comes from. Great. All of that happened to me. But you know what, I was still born in this country. So I still had a leg up. I have a responsibility to go out and achieve that American dream because it’s still alive.”