I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.
Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.
As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don’t be surprised if I’m not all that impressed with your hard work.
Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.
Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
You can’t have a bully without a victim.
I think it’s easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it’s just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.
Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.
Work faster, smarter and harder.
If you’re not booked, you’re not any good!
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.
Reward the behavior you want repeated.
Branding is nothing but knowing who you are and what you do that makes you stand out from everyone else, then communicating that through your marketing efforts. Branding is discovering your uniqueness and learning to exploit it.
The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn’t have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.
Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.
Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
Never build yourself up by tearing another down.
There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.
Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.