Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.