If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.
To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.
Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.
Everything changes when you change.
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.
Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
What you become directly influences what you get.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Learn to express, not impress.
Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
Time is the best kept secret of the rich.
To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
The best place to solve a problem is on paper.
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.
We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.
How long should you try? Until.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
The more you know the less you need to say.
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.
Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.
It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.
One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
Help another and you will be the one who benefits most
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills
I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.
Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change
The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
