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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.