Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.