What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.