Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.

For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.