I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby.
Negative people will always criticize.
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise.
It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.
Good parenting gives headaches, but bad parenting gives heartaches.
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed – the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.
If we are not a part of the solution, then we are the problem.
My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.
Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people’s life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.
In long term investments, you don’t need day to day management.
I think it’s the person’s conviction that really carries a person.
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.
Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence success is a matter of choice and not chance.