Look important. It helps you think important. How you look on the outside has a lot to do with how you feel on the inside.
The story is told that the great scientist Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know. Why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
Put service first, and money takes care of itself – always.
Einstein taught us a big lesson. He felt it was more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.
Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done.
Your mind will create a way if you let it.
Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.
Concentrate on your assets. You’re better than you think you are.
It isn’t what one has that’s important. Rather, it’s how much one is planning to get that counts.
To be on top, you’ve got to feel like you’re on top. Give yourself a pep talk and discover how much bigger and stronger you feel.
Here’s a technique that works: before complaining or accusing or reprimanding someone or launching a counterattack in self-defense, ask yourself, “Is it really important?” In most cases, it isn’t and you avoid conflict.
Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figure ways and means and how-to.
Ideas in themselves are not enough. That idea for getting more business, for simplifying work procedures, is of value only when it is acted upon.
Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down.
Big thinkers train themselves to see not just what is but what can be.
People naturally pay more for acreage and an idea than they do for just acreage.
Be constructively self-critical. Don’t run away from inadequacies. Be like the real professionals. They seek out their faults and weaknesses, then correct them. That’s what makes them professionals.
And the seed of money is service. That.
In the words of Publilius Syrus: A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave.
Next time you are in a large group, observe something very significant: the most important person present is the one person most active in introducing himself.