The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.