Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.