It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.