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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.
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Your persistence is your belief in yourself.
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If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
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Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.
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Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile
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Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
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When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
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Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
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Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.
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Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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First you put in, then you get out.
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The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.
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Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.
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The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.
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If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.
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A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.
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Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
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The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
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Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.