Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.