A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

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.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.