We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.