When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

The things that get rewarded, get done

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.