Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.
You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.
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.
To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.
Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.
Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying so get in motion and grow.
The key to success is failure.
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.