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“You haven't failed until you stop trying.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Positive energy and positive people create positive results. There is certainly a lot of negativity in the world and choosing positive energy helps us deal with the negative people and negative situations that can knock us off course.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.”
― Jon Gordon, The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

“Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.”
― Jon Gordon, The Carpenter: The 3 Greatest Success Strategies of All

“Often the difference between success and failure is belief.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently.”
― Jon Gordon, The Carpenter: The 3 Greatest Success Strategies of All

“Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.”
― Jon Gordon

“As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.”
― Jon Gordon, The Carpenter: The 3 Greatest Success Strategies of All

“If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.”
― Jon Gordon, The Carpenter: The 3 Greatest Success Strategies of All

“To run a successful organization,” I say, “you must learn to manage people’s energy, including your own.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It’s much more powerful that way.”
― Jon Gordon, The Carpenter: The 3 Greatest Success Strategies of All

“The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“They asked a bunch of ninety-five-year-olds, I don’t know where they found them all, Florida I guess, but anyway they asked them if they could do it all over again and live their life again what would they do differently. The three things that almost all of them said were: (1) They would reflect more. Enjoy more moments. More sunrises and sunsets. More moments of joy. (2) They would take more risks and chances. Life is too short not to go for it. (3) They would have left a legacy. Something that would live on after they die.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“in life you have a choice between two roads. The positive road and the negative road. The positive road will lead to enhanced health, happiness, and success and the negative road will lead to misery, anger, and failure.”
― Jon Gordon, The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

“If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, “What do we stand for?” and “What do we want to be known for?”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Strategy is important. Execution is imperative. However, the most overlooked aspect in team sports, and what most coaches and leaders fail to grasp, is the fact that it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy works and is sustainable. It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“Lou Holtz said, ‘Don’t complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don’t care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.”
― Jon Gordon, The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

“It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.”
― Jon Gordon, You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

“But I do know that if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you’ll keep on getting what you have been getting.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“Serve Them—A great leader once said, the higher you get in an organization the more it is your duty to serve the people below you rather than having the people below serve you. The key is to serve their growth, their future, their career, and their spirits so they enjoy work, life, and being on your bus.”
― Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy