Dan Pena Quotes

Dan Pena

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 10, 1945

My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!

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Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of 'negative' experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.

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Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

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

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Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!

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A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

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Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

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Next time, you question what you are doing - ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!

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Progress often masquerades as trouble.

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Jerry Ormand was already a legendary Texas oilman when I met him. Yet he took the time to introduce me to the fine points of the oil business and how to survive and prosper amid the chaos of a rough-and-tumble industry.

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QLA is not about filling your brain with information - it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!

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We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

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When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!

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

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All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!

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

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You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you'd be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don't approve of the man or the message.

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I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!

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All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfil your dreams!

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Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

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