You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.
Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely.
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.
You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.
Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.
Don’t waver. Make a decision. Do it now.
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ‘what is the most valuable use of my time right now?’