I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.