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!
We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!
Good leaders make sense of change in the world... then imparts that insight to the team.
Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.
I know what it's like to have a house repossessed... I've been there.
We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.
Never start small where goals are concerned. You'll make better decisions - and find it much easier to work a lot harder - when your ultimate goal is ultimate success.
All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!
I, like Don Quixote, have fought many a windmill.
Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.
We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.
All you need is the desire, passion, and will to fulfil your dreams!
By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!
My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!
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.
High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!
If you don't embrace a workload others would consider crazy, then your goal doesn't mean that much to you.
Once you learn to make money, it is not that hard... what's hard is to stay excited about it.
We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.
Progress often masquerades as trouble.
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!
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.
It is extremely gratifying to see success like exhibited by the founders of Instagram!
Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan - is nothing more than a pipe dream!
I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.
You have to have faith in people.
QLA is not about filling your brain with information - it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!
The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.
Daniel Steven Peña Sr. is a Mexican American businessman.
