- Jan 1: “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker
- Jan 2: “The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.” – John Ousterhout
- Jan 3: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Jan 4: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- Jan 5: “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
- Jan 6: “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- Jan 7: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
- Jan 8: “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
- Jan 9: “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
- Jan 10: “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- Jan 11: “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer
- Jan 12: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jan 13: “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
- Jan 14: “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
- Jan 15: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- Jan 16: “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- Jan 17: “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
- Jan 18: “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
- Jan 19: “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- Jan 20: “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
- Jan 21: “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey
- Jan 22: “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
- Jan 23: “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
- Jan 24: “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” – Mark Twain
- Jan 25: “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- Jan 26: “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
- Jan 27: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
- Jan 28: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- Jan 29: “Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
- Jan 30: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- Jan 31: “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs
