Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

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.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.