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.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

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.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.