Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.