43 Quotes by Mark McCormack

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

Short-term can be terminal.