Top 160 Orrin Woodward Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.”

— Orrin Woodward

52. “A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.”

— Orrin Woodward

53. “Leaders who won’t own failures become failures.”

— Orrin Woodward

54. “Leadership isn’t what a team says, but what it does.”

— Orrin Woodward

55. “If you accept excuses from others, it’s usually because you have accepted your own excuse.”

— Orrin Woodward

56. “A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.”

— Orrin Woodward

57. “Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.”

— Orrin Woodward

58. “Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.”

— Orrin Woodward

59. “If you don’t respect money, it won’t respect you.”

— Orrin Woodward

60. “A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”

— Orrin Woodward

61. “Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.”

— Orrin Woodward

62. “A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.”

— Orrin Woodward

63. “Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.”

— Orrin Woodward

64. “If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.”

— Orrin Woodward

65. “Those who serve deserve.”

— Orrin Woodward

66. “It’s not the gifts you don’t have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don’t use.”

— Orrin Woodward

67. “Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.”

— Orrin Woodward

68. “He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.”

— Orrin Woodward

69. “Success for most people requires unlearning as much as learning.”

— Orrin Woodward

70. “Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.”

— Orrin Woodward

71. “Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.”

— Orrin Woodward

72. “People buy into leaders through the 3R’s of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.”

— Orrin Woodward

73. “Never let what you don’t know stop you from doing what you do know.”

— Orrin Woodward

74. “Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won’t spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.”

— Orrin Woodward

75. “You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be.”

— Orrin Woodward

76. “Without courage, it doesn’t matter how good the leader’s intentions are.”

— Orrin Woodward

77. “You won’t get ahead until you get off your behind.”

— Orrin Woodward

78. “You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.”

— Orrin Woodward

79. “Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”

— Orrin Woodward

80. “Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.”

— Orrin Woodward

81. “Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.”

— Orrin Woodward

82. “You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.”

— Orrin Woodward

83. “Leaders don’t correct people to success as much as believe them to it.”

— Orrin Woodward

84. “If you aren’t loyal to the few you won’t be blessed with the many.”

— Orrin Woodward

85. “Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.”

— Orrin Woodward

86. “Death is only a tragedy when life’s purpose was left unfulfilled.”

— Orrin Woodward

87. “No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.”

— Orrin Woodward

88. “You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.”

— Orrin Woodward

89. “Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.”

— Orrin Woodward

90. “Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.”

— Orrin Woodward

91. “Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.”

— Orrin Woodward

92. “A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it’s mismanaged memory.”

— Orrin Woodward

93. “You won’t acquire external Haters until you’ve conquered the internal Hater.”

— Orrin Woodward

94. “You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief.”

— Orrin Woodward

95. “I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.”

— Orrin Woodward

96. “Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.”

— Orrin Woodward

97. “You don’t feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.”

— Orrin Woodward

98. “The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.”

— Orrin Woodward

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

— Orrin Woodward

100. “The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.”

— Orrin Woodward