Denis Waitley

Denis Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He has counseled leaders in many fields, including Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives and Olympic gold medalists. Waitley has also written 16 books and has released numerous audio lectures.

In 2007, he decided to withdraw his re-nomination to the board of directors of Usana. Immediately afterwards, he announced his retirement from the company. Apparently he was asked to resign after it was discovered that he did not have a Master’s degree. He currently lives in Ensenada, Mexico and travels to China on a regular basis as a business development consultant.

Date of birth:
1933
"Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Time
"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Wisdom
"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Time
"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Courage
"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Happiness
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Change
"A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Life
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Success
"The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Attitude
"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."
― Denis Waitley
Topic(s): Experience

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