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Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
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Never settle for anything less than your best.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
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Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.
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Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
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The only time you'll ever have is now.
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The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.
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The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
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According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.
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Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.
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Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.
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If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.
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Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
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Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.
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Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
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The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
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Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
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Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.