Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."