Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.