Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.