Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.