Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

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

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.