Orrin Woodward Quotes

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.

Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!

The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.

Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.

People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.

To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

If you don't respect money, it won't respect you.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.