Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

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.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

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

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.