Top 150 Performance Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.”

— Ed Seykota

102. “You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?”

— W. Clement Stone

103. “A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.”

— Charles Erwin Wilson

104. “You can’t win together if you don’t work together.”

— Nick Saban

105. “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.”

— Simon Sinek

106. “Successful people don’t fear failure, but understand that it’s necessary to learn and grow from it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

107. “It is action that creates motivation.”

— Steve Backley

108. “Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”

— Tony Robbins

109. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”

— Babe Ruth

110. “You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

111. “Ideation without execution is delusion.”

— Robin S. Sharma

112. “You feel what you’re focused on.”

— Tony Robbins

113. “Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.”

— Michael Jackson

114. “You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don’t count.”

— Robert Anthony

115. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”

— John C. Maxwell

116. “What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”

— Sun Tzu

117. “It is not the critic who counts.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

118. “When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.”

— Ray Lewis

119. “Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.”

— Pat Riley

120. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

— Peter F. Drucker

121. “If you think you are too old to rock ’n roll, then you are.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

122. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

123. “It’s not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.”

— Tony Robbins

124. “If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.”

— Miles Davis

125. “Why accept failure when success is free?”

— Kevin Gates

126. “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

127. “Do whatever you have to do to make sure you chase your legacy every second of your life.”

— Ray Lewis

128. “Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

— LeBron James

129. “To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”

— Michael Jordan

130. “You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

— John Wooden

131. “I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.”

— Jordan Belfort

132. “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.”

— Walter Payton

133. “As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.”

— Richard Branson

134. “There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.”

— Robert Cheeke

135. “There is no “I” in “Team,” but there is an “E” for “Everyone.” A team achieves more when everyone contributes.”

— Robert Cheeke

136. “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”

— James Harrington

137. “It’s not about the shoes, it’s what you do in them.”

— Michael Jordan

138. “Leaders create culture. Culture drives behavior. Behavior produces results.”

— Urban Meyer

139. “A leader’s job is not to do the work for others; it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.”

— Simon Sinek

140. “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

— Henry Ford

141. “The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.”

— Tom Peters

142. “If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

143. “The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It’s their mindset!”

— Eric Thomas

144. “When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.”

— Thomas S. Monson

145. “A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”

— Steve Prefontaine

146. “Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.”

— Brian Tracy

147. “To be energetic, act energetic.”

— W. Clement Stone

148. “The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.”

— Simon Sinek

149. “You are either the best or you are the worst. There is no in between.”

— Conor McGregor

150. “If we look at those who are the most successful in the world, persistence is the common denominator.”

— Justin Sachs