Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.

Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?