The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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.
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress – and get over it.
If you don’t actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
Change your thinking, and you will change your life.
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history.
One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
The fact is that you can’t do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.
Success comes in cans, not can’ts.