There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.
The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don’t decide to be successful.
Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
Success is predictable.
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.
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.
You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.
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.
Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!
Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.
You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.