If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

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."

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.