Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Decision equals destiny.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.