A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
— Jim Rohn
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
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.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The more you know the less you need to say.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
