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.
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.
You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.
You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.
No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.
If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?
There’s only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There’s a difference.
There’s no nobility in poverty.
Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.
You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love – that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment – how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?
Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.
There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.
You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, then see them better than they are, and make them that way.
I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.