I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

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.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.