Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.
Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty.
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts – rich thoughts.
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.
Don’t follow the path. Blaze the trail.
Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers.
No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.
Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.
The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.