The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.