Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!

I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to persevere! Willing to stick in there! Willing to fight!

You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!