If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, “Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep.” Woman says, “Ain’t no sheep!”
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. ‘Farm’ the seeds of constructive influence.
Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.
Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn’t mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!
You’ve got to believe in the possibilities. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here’s the big one. Believe in yourself.