Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

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

If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.