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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.
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Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.
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The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
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Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.
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The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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Nobody values your time but YOU.
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Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.
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There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
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Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
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Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
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My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.
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It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
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When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.