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How do I achieve success?

What's in it For Me?

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Success after failure

Most people achieved their greatest successes one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What are time wasters?

Spend 5 minutes complaining

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

-- Jim Rohn

   
What are the characteristics of successful people?

Believe in yourself

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

-- Norman Vincent Peale

   
How do I achieve balance?

Control yourself

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

-- Lau Tsu

   
How do I change my thinking?

Be happy and pursue

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Don't wish it was easier

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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You are responsible

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

-- Oprah Winfrey

   
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Modify or Magnify

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Be careful what you say

The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!

-- Zig Ziglar

   
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Risk

Dare to risk public criticism.

-- Mary Kay Ash

   
How can I be more successful?

Maximum Utilization

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

-- Zig Ziglar

   
What matters in life?

The life in your years

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

-- Abraham Lincoln

   
How do I become wealthy?

Express gratitude

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

-- Zig Ziglar

   
How do I set goals?

Memories and Dreams

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

--Doug Ivester

   
What are qualities of a good leader?

Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another!

-- Walter Elliott

   
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Positive attitude

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
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Win the second half

Don't give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

-- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

   
How do I encourage employees?

Hire nice people

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

-- Jim Rohn

   
Where do ideas come from?

Seek and ye shall find

The Bible says, 'If you wish to find, you must search.' I believe that is true, rarely does a good idea interrupt you.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I stay away from bad influences?

Take charge of your life.

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

-- Jim Rohn

   
What does it mean to be rich?

Thanksgiving opens opportunity

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

--Zig Ziglar

   
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Take care of you for me

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.'

-- Jim Rohn

   
Where do I find opportunity?

Seeking security

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I put my life in balance?

You are what you...

You are what you think about all day long.

-- Dr. Robert Schuller

   
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You miss 100%...

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

-Wayne Gretzky

   
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Personal responsibility

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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No Limits

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have, or do.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Economic Knowledge

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

-- John Kenneth Gilbraith

   
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Applaud!

When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

   
What is customer service?

Shortage of listeners

It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

-- Erma Bombeck

   
How can I change my thinking?

Expect the best!

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

-- Denis Waitley

   
How do I develop good habits?

Forget everything

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

--William Durant

   
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The time is right

The time is always right to do what is right.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

   
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Uplift Humanity

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

   
What are habits?

Good habits

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
How do I get motivated?

Be clear about the consequences

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I change my thinking?

You think how you act

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

-- Millard Fuller(founder of Habitat for Humanity)

   
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Do your best and learn from it

In sales there are going to be times when you can't make everyone happy. Don't expect to and you won't be disappointed. Just do your best for each client in each situation as it arises. Then, learn from each situation how to do it better the next time.

-- Tom Hopkins

   
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Build a reputation

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

-- Henry Ford

   
How do I build confidence?

Listen to yourself

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter.

-- Chekov

   
What will make me a strong leader?

Opportunity minded

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

-- Stephen Covey

   
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I'm sick and tired...

I'm sick and tired of teachers who don't want to teach,
and preachers who don't want to preach,
and salesmen who don't like to sell
and workers who won't work.
But the one thing that makes me sickest are the leaders who won't lead!

-Charlie Brower

   
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Valuable-->Indispensable

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I become successful?

To succeed...

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

--Tony Dorsett

   
How do I succeed?

Fundamental Success

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I stay morivated?

Surround yourself with optimism

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

--Zig Ziglar

   
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We work for ourselves

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How can I be more successful?

Success From Failure

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

-- Winston Churchill

   
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Lack of will

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

-- Vincent T. Lombardi

   
How do I make a difference?

You make a difference

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

--William James

   
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No can't, only won't

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

--Jan Ashford

   
How do I change my thinking?

Life is hard

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

-- Sydney Harris

   
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Nothing wrong with change

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

-- Winston Churchill

   
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Get Knocked Down

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

-- Vince Lombardi

   
How do I develop good habits?

Developing good habits

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

-- W. Clement Stone

   
What can defeat a good idea?

Edit what you say

When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

-- Rabbi Zelig Pliskin

   
How do I leave a legacy?

Everything a miracle

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

-- Albert Einstein

   
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Talent alone...

Talent alone won't make you a success.
Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready.
The most important question is always: "Are you ready?"

-Johnny Carson

   
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Do the work

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

-- Indira Gandhi

   
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Who owes you?

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

-- Mark Twain

   
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Do not go...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

   
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There are lots of people!

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting - there are lots of people!

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Be respectful

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to... But be respected -- that is essential.

-- Anna Gould

   
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Look what he aspires to

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

--Kahlil Gibran

   
How do I build confidence?

Confidence

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I find knowledge?

The function of genius

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.

--Hugh Trevor-Roper

   
What is customer service?

Who Are Your Customers?

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction. Who are your customers and how are you doing?

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Example

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

-- Christian Nevell Bovee

   
Where do ideas come from?

The more you know

The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come.

-- Cozy Cole

   
Why is decision making important?

Decisions-->Destiny

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

-- Anthony Robbins

   
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The Golden Rule

Internalize the 'Golden Rule' of sales that says, 'All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.'

-- Bob Burg

   
How do I find happiness?

Life in the living

Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living."

-- Doug Firebaugh

   
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Learn to use one's eyes

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

-- George Sand

   
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The task ahead

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

   
What is the purpose of new ideas?

Ideas

Ideas are the root of creation.

-- Ernest Dimnet

   
How do I achieve success?

Decide to be successful

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
How do I succeed?

Believe you can

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

-- Denis Waitley

   
How do I make a good impression?

Attitude of Gratitude

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What is risk?

Going far...

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

--Dale Carnegie

   
How do I achieve peace of mind?

Peace of Mind

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

-- Larry Eisenberg

   
What is customer service?

Render Service

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How can I do my business better?

Give everything your best

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

-- Dale Carnegie

   
How do I get what I want?

Believe and Achieve

What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve.

-- Napoleon Hill

   
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Problems

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

-- Henry J. Kaiser

   
How do I encourage employees?

People-builders

The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Why settle for less?

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keller

   
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The second effort

Make the second effort your second nature.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
How do I stay focused?

Invest your talents

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts."

-- Nido Qubein

   
How long does it take to grow a business?

It takes time

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I achieve success?

Life's funny

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

   
How do I find knowledge?

Invest in knowledge

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

- Benjamin Franklin

   
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I Cannot...

"I cannot do it" never produced anything.
"I will try" has performed wonders.

-George Bunhem

   
How do I find fulfillment in my life?

Impossibly fun

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

-- Walt Disney

   
How do I achieve perfection?

Be imperfect

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

-- Robert Schuller

   
How do I make friends?

Making friends

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

-- Dale Carnegie

   
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Example or Warning?

The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I get what I want?

Must have/Want to have

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and a 'want.'

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Character is higher than intellect

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

   
How do I get what I want?

Work your plan

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What is competition?

Discipline

The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

-- James A. Ray

   
What is success?

Think Big!

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

-- Donald Trump

   
How do I build confidence?

Do it!

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

   
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How long should you try?

How long should you try? Until.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Get better

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I achieve peace of mind?

Limits of tomorrow

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

   
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Our accomplishments

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime -- repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

-- Dale Carnegie

   
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Master One Thing

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

   
How do I achieve greatness?

The startingpoint of achievement

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

-- Napoleon Hill

   
How do good things happen?

Believe in what you are doing

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Vision without action

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

--Japanese Proverb

   
How do I build confidence?

The 5 C's

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

-- Walt Disney

   
How do I build momentum?

Moment by moment

The secret to Momentum in life can be found in the word Momentum...you create it Moment by Moment.

-- Doug Firebaugh

   
How do I succeed?

Effort = Achievement

Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Prospecting, presenting and followup

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Failure is an opinion

Failure is an opinion. It is either an educational tool for starting over or an excuse breeding tool for saying it's over.

-- Doug Firebaugh

   
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It will happen

As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

-- Denis Waitley

   
How do I become a better leader?

Few people hear

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
What are the skills of a good leader?

Agenda Anxiety

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

-- Nido Qubein

   
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Persistance and achievement

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

-- Brian Tracy

   
Where do I find opportunity?

Opportunity comes disguised

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

-- Napoleon Hill

   
Why is decision making important?

Get off the fence!

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off of sometimes. What matters most is getting off! You cannot make progress without making decisions.

-- Jim Rohn

   
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Do it right!

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

   
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Desire-->Achievement

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

-- Napoleon Hill

   
Where do successful people come from?

Vision

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

-- Jonathan Swift

   
How do I make good habits?

Reforming habits

Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits.

-- Mark Twain

   
How do I expand my sphere of influence?

Expand your sphere of influence

It isn't so important that YOU know 250 people. What's important is that everyone you MEET knows 250 people. That means, in essence, that every time you develop a strong relationship with someone new, you've potentially expanded your personal sphere of influence by 250 people every... single... time.

-- Bob Burg

   
How do I find knowledge?

Look high!

Every sparrow knows an eagle.

-- Jan Ruhe

   
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Small Opportunities

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

-Demosthenes

   
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Get a little better every day

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

-- Brian Tracy

   
How do I change?

Stay Creative

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

-- Harvey Mackay

   
How much risk is good?

To Risk, or Not to Risk?

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, ""Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"" That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes."

--David Viscott

   
How do good things happen?

Expect the best

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

-- Tom Hopkins

   
How can I be more successful?

Lack of will

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
-- Vincent T. Lombardi

   
How do I become successful?

Make a commitment

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.

-- Brian Tracy

   
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Do what you know

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Anthony Robbins

   
How do I become successful?

Foolish!

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

-- Chinese Proverb

   
How do I find fulfillment?

Life is a banquet

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."

-- Mame Dennis in Autie Mame

   
What is a genious?

Genius

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931
American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

   
What are qualities of a good leader?

Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

-- Helen Keller

   
How do I achieve greatness?

Your attitude

When your attitude is right, everything is possible.

-Rachel Stewart

   
What does it mean to be rich?

Being rich

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

-- Harvey B. Mackay

   
How do ideas become successes?

An idea whose time has come

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

   
Where do I find a mentor?

If you want to be successful...

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."

--Anthony Robbins

   
What will make me a strong leader?

Don't judge each day...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

   
Why settle for less?

Build a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

-- Milton Berle

   
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Failure

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

-- Denis Waitley

   
How do I change my thinking?

Seek to understand

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

-- Stephen Covey

   
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We change

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I build wealth?

Pessimist-Optimist

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

-- Harry Truman

   
How do I become inspired?

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

-- Melody Beattie

   
What can defeat a good idea?

The impact of a new idea

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

-- Percy Williams Bridgman

   
What is commitment?

It takes time

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I find happiness?

An attitude of mind

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

-- J. Donald Walters

   
How do I become successful?

Start from the lowest

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

-- Publilius Syrus

   
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The credit belongs to...

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

True self-esteem

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

-- Denis Waitley

   
What are the characteristics of successful people?

Self-discipline

The most important quality in the development of human character is, and always has been, self discipline.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

Persuasion

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

-- Zig Ziglar

   
How can I change?

Be the change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

-- Gita Bellin

   
How do I build confidence?

Valuable and important

Everything you do in life is to either increase or to protect your self-esteem. You tend to be happiest with someone who makes you feel valuable and important.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

Leave it better than you found it

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

-- Jim Rohn

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

Push on

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

-- Zig Ziglar

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

Accuracy builds credibility

Accuracy builds credibility.

-- Jim Rohn

   
What is competition?

Fast moving industry

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

   
Where di I get new ideas?

One good idea

Take all the training you can get; one good idea is all you need to save yourself years of hard work.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

Appreciate people

Appreciate people. Nothing gives more joy than appreciation.

-- Ruth Smeltzer

   
What do I do with the money I earn?

Earn well or live well?

Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well.

-- Jim Rohn

   
How do I find happiness?

Live your imagination

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

-- Stephen Covey

   
What are some inspirational quotes?

A reflection of you

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

-- James A. Ray

   
How do I build confidence?

Belief becomes reality

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

-- Brian Tracy

   
What are time wasters?

A waste of time?

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

-- Sir John Lubbock

   

What Business Isn't, According To A Great Businessman

" A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. " - Henry Ford

   

Business Ambition Quotation

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

   

Ambitious Business Quote

"Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve." - Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy Software, Inc.

   
How do I achieve success?

Wisdom into labor

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

- Jim Rohn

   
Quote

A journey of a thousand miles...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

-Confucius

   

What To Expect When You Start A Business

" Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. " - Tim Berners-Lee

   
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