Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.