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Friday 29 April 2005
- Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn’t cost much, we probably wouldn’t appreciate the value.
- To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
- You cannot succeed by yourself. It’s hard to find a rich hermit.
- 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.
- Resolve says, ‘I will.’ The man says, ‘I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.’
- Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.
- Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!
- Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- 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.
- Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
- The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
- Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little, happy, high notes? Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals, and the minor keys.
- For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need is just one more good idea.
- I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
- Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
- Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
- Don’t say, ‘If I could, I would.’ Say, ‘If I can, I will.’
- The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, ‘I wish someone would come by and turn me on.’ What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.
- Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experiences and invest them in the future.
- Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.
- 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.
- We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
- Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
- To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.
- If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.
- Let others lead small lives, but not you.
- I used to say, ‘I sure hope things will change.’ Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
- If you care at all you will get some results. If you care enough you will get incredible results!
- The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
- Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need is just one more good idea.
- Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.
- Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.