At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Change and everything will change for you.
Faith is the ability to see things that don’t yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.
Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.
Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.
The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He’s picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favorite place to feed his mind!
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
The soil says, don’t bring me your need, bring me your seed.
Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?