Make the second effort your second nature.

Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.