You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

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.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.