I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.