Something will master and something will
serve. Either you run the day or the day runs
you; either you run the business or the business
runs you.
Learn how to separate the majors and the
minors. A lot of people don't do well simply
because they major in minor things.
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's
easy to get faked out by being busy. The
question is: Busy doing what?
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you
have one less day to spend. So make sure you
spend each one wisely.
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be
out of reach.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend
to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than
invest it.
We can no more afford to spend major time on
minor things than we can to spend minor time on
major things.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get
more money, but you cannot get more time.
Never begin the day until it is finished on
paper.
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth
overload your back.
Time is the best-kept secret of the rich.
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"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but
not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a
bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but
not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor,
but without folly."
"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not
just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not
need."
"My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do
it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'"
"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."
"Managers help people see themselves as they are;
Leaders help people to see themselves better than
they are."
"Learn to help people with more than just their
jobs: help them with their lives."
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Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of
doing less and wanting more.
If you want to amend your errors, you must
begin by amending your philosophy.
The only thing worse than not reading a book
in the last ninety days is not reading a book in
the last ninety days and thinking that it
doesn't matter.
Your personal philosophy is the greatest
determining factor in how your life works out.
Initial response illustrates a great deal
about someone's personal philosophy.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any
day they choose by refining their philosophy.
The key factor that will determine your
financial future is not the economy; the key
factor is your philosophy.
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop
your own philosophy and it will lead you to
unique places.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind
that blows will always take you to the dreams
you want, the income you want, and the treasures
of mind, purse, and soul you want.
Your philosophy determines whether you will
go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you
know and what you decide is valuable.
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Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me,
"Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and
invested over the last six years?" And I said,
"None." He then asked, "Who sold you on that
plan?"
It is better to be a lender than a spender.
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.
Financial independence is the ability to live
from the income of your own personal resources.
If you depend on your company to take care of
your retirement, your future income will be
divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and
you can multiply your future income by five.
I remember saying to my mentor, "If I had
more money, I would have a better plan." He
quickly responded, "I would suggest that if you
had a better plan, you would have more money."
You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's
the plan that counts.
If you were to show me your current financial
plan, would I get so excited by it that I would
go across the country and lecture on it? If the
answer is no, then here's my question: "Why
not"? Why wouldn't you have a superior financial
plan that is taking you to the places you want
to go?
I used to say, "Things cost too much." Then
my teacher straightened me out on that by
saying, "The problem isn't that things cost too
much. The problem is that you can't afford it."
That's when I finally understood that the
problem wasn't "it" - the problem was "me."
The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't
say that it is impossible!
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One of the best places to start to turn your
life around is by doing whatever appears on your
mental "I should" list.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum
except human beings. How tall will a tree grow?
As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the
other hand, have been given the dignity of
choice. You can choose to be all or you can
choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the
full measure of the challenge and see what all
you can do?
You cannot change your destination overnight,
but you can change your direction overnight.
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner
civil war.
Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I
can, I will."
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.
We generally change ourselves for one of two
reasons: inspiration or desperation.
If you don't like how things are, change it!
You're not a tree.
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.
Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I
can, I will."
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.
We generally change ourselves for one of two
reasons: inspiration or desperation.
If you don't like how things are, change it!
You're not a tree.
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Be a collector of good ideas, but don't
trust your memory. The best collecting place for
all of the ideas and information that comes your
way is your journal.
The reason why I spend so
much money for my journals is to press me to
find something valuable to put in them.
There are three things to leave behind: your
photographs, your library and your personal
journals. These things are certainly going to be
more valuable to future generations than your
furniture!
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use
your mind to work out problems and find answers;
file away good ideas in your journal.
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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.
We can have more than we've got because we
can become more than we are.
The big challenge is to become all that you
have the possibility of becoming. You cannot
believe what it does to the human spirit to
maximize your human potential and stretch
yourself to the limit.
Pity the man who inherits a million dollars
and who isn't a millionaire. Here's what would
be pitiful: If your income grew and you didn't.
The most important question to ask on the job
is not "What am I getting?" The most important
question to ask on the job is "What am I
becoming?"
It is hard to keep that which has not been
obtained through personal development.
After you become a millionaire, you can give
all of your money away because what's important
is not the million dollars; what's important is
the person you have become in the process of
becoming a millionaire.
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
What you become directly influences what you
get.
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You must get good at one of two things:
sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.
God has the tough end of the deal. What if
instead of planting the seed you had to make the
tree? That would keep you up late at night,
trying to figure that one out.
Plant, don't chant.
One of my good friends always says, "Things
don't just happen; things happen just."
The soil says, "Don't bring me your need,
bring me your seed."
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Better understated than overstated. Let
people be surprised that it was more than you
promised and easier than you said.
For effective communication, use brevity.
Jesus said, "Follow me." Now that's brief! He
could be brief because of all that he was that
he didn't have to say.
You cannot speak that which you do not know.
You cannot share that which you do not feel. You
cannot translate that which you do not have. And
you cannot give that which you do not possess.
To give it and to share it, and for it to be
effective, you first need to have it. Good
communication starts with good preparation.
The goal of effective communication should be
for listeners to say, "Me, too!" verses "So
what?"
Learn to express, not impress.
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of
your presentation. There are probably about a
thousand facts about an automobile, but you
don't need them all to make a decision. About a
half dozen will do.
Effective communication is 20% what you know
and 80% how you feel about what you know.
What is powerful is when what you say is just
the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
It's not the matter you cover so much as it
is the manner in which you cover it.
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You must learn to translate wisdom and strong
feelings into labor.
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not
available by affirmation; it is only available
by labor.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only
rest long enough to gather strength.
Without constant activity, the threats of
life will soon overwhelm the values.
The few who do are the envy of the many who
only watch.
For every promise, there is a price to pay.
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Learn how to be happy with what you have
while you pursue all that you want.
Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it
something you wish for. Happiness is something
you design.
How sad to see a father with money and no
joy. The man studied economics, but never
studied happiness.
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from
inside.
Happiness is the art of learning how to get
joy from your substance.
Happiness is not something you postpone for
the future; it is something you design for the
present.
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a
book.
Some people claim that it is okay to read
trashy novels because sometimes you can find
something valuable in them. You can also find a
crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search
long enough, but there is a better way.
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a
library. That should tell us something.
Everything you need for your better future
and success has already been written. And guess
what? It's all available. All you have to do is
go to the library. But would you believe that
only three percent of the people in America have
a library card. Wow, they must be expensive! No,
they're free. And there's probably a library in
every neighborhood. Only three percent!
Some people read so little they have rickets
of the mind.
I now have one of the better libraries. I
admit that I haven't read everything in my
library, but I feel smarter just walking in it.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be
entertained by it, but you will never grow from
it.
The book you don't read won't help.
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!
It isn't what the book costs; it's what it
will cost if you don't read it.
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One customer, well taken care of, could be
more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.
Good service leads to multiple sales. If you
take good care of your customers, they will open
doors you could never open by yourself.
How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes
of service.
You have to do more than you get paid for
because that's where the fortune is.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself
in line for greatness - great wealth, great
return, great satisfaction, great reputation and
great joy.
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Most people are just trying to get through
the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get
from the day.
Sophistication is understanding the
difference between trinkets and treasures.
Don't spend major money on minor things. In
the last ten years the guy has bought two tons
of donuts and only two books - and the books are
primarily filled with pictures.
Sophisticated people don't leave early. The
man says, "Yeah, but I want to beat the
traffic." Isn't that a great skill to have -
beating the traffic!
It doesn't take a million dollars to learn
the difference between a bottle of fine wine and
a Pepsi. Sophistication is a study not an
amount.
One of the early signs of sophistication is
not giving way to all inclinations but rather
sending your emotions to school so they will
learn how to behave.
Money doesn't make you sophisticated. Only
study and practice make you sophisticated. Even
people of modest means can become sophisticated
because it is within study and practice. How
much is a night out at the symphony? About
thirty dollars. You say, "Poor people can't
afford thirty dollars to go to the symphony."
Yes, they can. It's only thirty Hershey bars!
We must teach our children not to spend their
money a dollar at a time. If you spend your
money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with
trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy
much of value a dollar at a time.
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It's best to start the discipline
of generosity when the amounts are
small. It's easy to give ten cents
out of a dollar; it's a little
harder to give a hundred thousand
out of a million.
Giving is better than receiving
because giving starts the receiving
process.
Nothing teaches character better
than generosity.
Here's what is exciting about
sharing ideas with others: If you
share a new idea with ten people,
they get to hear it once and you get
to hear it ten times.
Sharing makes you bigger than you
are. The more you pour out, the more
life will be able to pour in.
Somebody says, "Well, I can't be
concerned about other people. About
the best I can do is to take care of
myself." Well, then you will always
be poor.
What you give becomes an
investment that will return to you
multiplied at some point in the
future.
When somebody shares, everybody
wins.
The amount you give isn't
important. What matters is what that
amount represents in terms of your
life.
Only by giving are you able to
receive more than you already have.
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One person caring about another represents
life's greatest value.
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.
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".
The walls we build around us to keep out the
sadness also keep out the joy.
There is no greater leadership challenge than
parenting.
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.
Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st
century in science, politics, education, and
industry. But the greatest challenge in
leadership is parenting. We need to do more than
just get our enterprises ready for the
challenges of the twenty-first century. We also
need to get our children ready for the
challenges of the 21st century.
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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.
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.
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."
Disgust and resolve are two of the great
emotions that lead to change.
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Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget
about the thief waiting in the alley; what about
the thief in your mind?
It is not what happens that determines the
major part of your future. What happens, happens
to us all. It is what you do about what happens
that counts.
You say, "The country is messed up." That's
like cursing the soil and the seed and the
sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got.
Don't curse all you've got. When you get your
own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal.
This one you've got to take like it comes.
Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their
excuses. Take charge of your own life.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give
yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said,
"Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no
one's master."
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.
Your paycheck is not your employer's
responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your
employer has no control over your value, but you
do.
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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.
You must either modify your dreams or magnify
your skills.
You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it
takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for
an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes.
The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is
skills.
The key to life is to become skillful enough
to be able to do rewarding things.
Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of
people every day. And here’s what’s exciting –
there are lots of people!
Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The
sale will make you a living; the skill will make
you a fortune.
Selling is a person-to-person business. You
cannot send the sales manual out to make the
sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.
In the sales profession the real work begins
after the sale is made.
Sales people should take lessons from their
kids. What does the word “no“ mean to a child?
Almost nothing.
Even if you are new in sales, you can make up
in numbers what you lack in skills.
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How much should you earn? As much as you
possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn
$10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as
you've done the best you can.
The man says, "If I had a fortune, I'd take
good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and
I don't know where it all goes." Wouldn't you
love to have him running your company?
If you wish to have power and influence over
the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there
are just a few. If you have a few employees, a
few distributors, a few people, that's the time
to stay in touch and be totally absorbed - when
there is just a few.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever
you've got.
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We've all heard the expression, "An apple a
day keeps the doctor away." Well, I've got a
good question for you: What if it's true?
Wouldn't that be easy to do - to eat an apple a
day? Here's the problem: It's also easy not to
do.
Neglect starts out as an infection then
becomes a disease.
Cardiovascular problems alone in America
create over a thousand funerals a day... and 90%
of the problem is neglect.
One of the reasons many people don't have
what they want is neglect.
Problem Solving
To solve any problem, there are three
questions to ask yourself: First, what could I
do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom
could I ask?
The real problem is usually two or three
questions deep. If you want to go after
someone's problem, be aware that most people
aren't going to reveal what the real problem is
after the first question.
Neil Armstrong once said, "You only have to
solve two problems when going to the moon:
first, how to get there; and second, how to get
back. The key is don't leave until you have
solved both problems."
Never attack a problem without also
presenting a solution.
The best place to solve a problem is on
paper.
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Take time to gather up the past so that you
will be able to draw from your experiences and
invest them in the future.
Don't let the learning from your own
experiences take too long. If you have been
doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would
suggest that's long enough!
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is
the collection of experiences and their
intensity.
It's easy to carry the past as a burden
instead of a school. It's easy to let it
overwhelm you instead of educate you.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new
experience. If you want to be able to express it
well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
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If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely
does a good idea interrupt you.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you
need is just one more good idea.
Ideas are information taking shape.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it
on our mental scales and weigh it carefully
before deciding its value.
One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed
with inspiration.
Nothing is more powerful for your future than
being a gatherer of good ideas and information.
That's called doing your homework.
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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.
If you don't design your own life plan,
chances are you'll fall into someone else's
plan. And guess what they may have planned for
you? Not much.
The reason why most people face the future
with apprehension instead of anticipation is
because they don't have it well designed.
The guy says, "When you work where I work, by
the time you get home, it's late. You've got to
have a bite to eat, watch
a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit
up half the night planning, planning, planning."
And he's the same guy who is behind on his car
payment!
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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.
When Andrew Carnegie died, they discovered a
sheet of paper upon which he had written one of
the major goals of his life: to spend the first
half of his life accumulating money and to spend
the last half of his life giving it all away.
And he did!
Some people are disturbed by those tough days
because all they have is the days. They haven't
designed or described or defined the future.
Goals. There's no telling what you can do
when you get inspired by them. There's no
telling what you can do when you believe in
them. And there's no telling what will happen
when you act upon them.
We all need lots of powerful long-range goals
to help us past the short-term obstacles.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to
entice you to become the person it takes to
achieve them.
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't
need much, you won't become much.
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.
We all have two choices: We can make a living
or we can design a life.
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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be
attracted by the person you become. Failure is
not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail
overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in
judgment, repeated every day. Don't take the
casual approach to life. Casualness leads to
casualties. Success is the study of the
obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and
Obvious II in school. It's too bad failures
don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable?
If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for
forty years, you've just got to say, "John, if I
bring my journal and promise to take good notes,
would you spend a day with me?" Success is not
so much what we have as it is what we are.
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You
might know how to read, but more importantly,
what's your plan to read? Average people look
for ways of getting away with it; successful
people look for ways of getting on with it.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and
accomplishment.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the
pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The
difference is discipline weighs ounces while
regret weighs tons.
All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly
the man says, "This is the only area where I let
down." Not true. Every let down affects the
rest. Not to think so is naive.
Discipline is the foundation upon which all
success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably
leads to failure.
Discipline has within it the potential for
creating future miracles.
The best time to set up a new discipline is
when the idea is strong.
One discipline always leads to another
discipline.
Affirmation without discipline is the
beginning of delusion.
You don't have to change that much for it to
make a great deal of difference. A few simple
disciplines can have a major impact on how your
life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in
the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode
our self-esteem.
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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.
Americans are incredibly impatient. Someone
once said that the shortest period of time in
America is the time between when the light turns
green and when you hear the first horn honk.
The twin killers of success are impatience
and greed.
How long should you try? Until.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in
the summer. If you've signed up for a season,
see it through. You don't have to stay forever,
but at least stay until you see it through.
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There are two parts to influence: first,
influence is powerful; and second, influence is
subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off
course, but you might let someone nudge you off
course and not even realize it.
We need a variety of input and influence and
voices. You cannot get all the answers to life
and business from one person or from one source.
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and
association.
Don't spend most of your time on the voices
that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so
that you will have more time to tune in the
valuable ones.
"No" puts distance between you and the wrong
influence.
You must constantly ask yourself these
questions: Who am I around? What are they doing
to me? What have they got me reading? What have
they got me saying? Where do they have me going?
What do they have me thinking? And most
important, what do they have me becoming? Then
ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go
where the expectations and the demands to
perform are high.
Some people you can afford to spend a few
minutes with, but not a few hours.
Get around people who have something of value
to share with you. Their impact will continue to
have a significant effect on your life long
after they have departed.
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Formal education will make you a living;
self-education will make you a fortune.
We must learn to apply all that we know so
that we can attract all that we want.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning
is the beginning of health. Learning is the
beginning of spirituality. Searching and
learning is where the miracle process all
begins.
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.
Don't see the mind for more than it is, but
don't misread it for all that it can be.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects:
life and people. You will only gather
information from a source if you are interested
in it.
Education must precede motivation.
While you are in school, make sure you get
the information. What you think about it, that's
up to you. What you are going to do with it that
will soon be up to you. But while you are there,
make sure you get it. In fact, my advice is –
Don't leave school without it!
Never begrudge the money you spend on your
own education.
If you step up the self-education curve, you
will come up with more answers than you can use.
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Show your contempt for the problem and your
concern for the person.
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You
have to know about the tragedies as well as the
triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
How do you build a bridge between age 12 and
age 40? By remembering.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to
anyone is the gift of attention.
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.
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At the end of each day, you should play back
the tapes of your performance. The results
should either applaud you or prod you.
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest
time. This is when we must learn how to reap
without complaint if the amounts are small and
how to reap without apology if the amounts are
big.
Life asks us to make measurable progress in
reasonable time. That's why they make those
fourth grade chairs so small – so you won't fit
in them at age twenty-five!
There are some things you don't have to know
how it works - only that it works. While some
people are studying the roots, others are
picking the fruit. It just depends on which end
of this you want to get in on.
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Leaders, whether in the family, in business,
in government, or in education, must not allow
themselves to mistake intentions for
accomplishments.
Managers help people to see themselves as
they are. Leaders help people to see themselves
better than they are.
Leaders must not be naive. I used to say,
"Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words
that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie.
That's why we call them liars -- they lie! What
else would you expect them to do?
We must learn to help those who deserve it,
not just those who need it. Life responds to
deserve not need.
My mentor said, "Let's go do it," not "You go
do it." How powerful when someone says, "Let's"!
Leaders must understand that some people will
inevitably sellout to the evil side. Don't waste
your time wondering why; spend your time
discovering who.
When dealing with people, I generally take
the obvious approach. When someone says, "This
always happens to me and that always happens to
me. Why do these things always happen to me?" I
simply say, "Beats me. I don't know. All I know
is that those kinds of things seem to happen to
people like you."
We could all use a little coaching. When
you're playing the game, it's hard to think of
everything.
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.
As a leader you should always start with
where people are before you try to take them to
where you want them to go.
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The best advice I ever came across on the
subject of concentration is: Wherever you are,
be there.
When you work, work. When you play, play.
Don't mix the two.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you
are with the gift of attention.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way -
not the work.
Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the
day.
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The Pledge of Allegiance starts with "I" and
ends with "all." That's what America is all
about - "I" (individual) and "all" (all of us).
When all of us understand how valuable each of
us is, that's powerful. And here's what else is
powerful: When each of us understands how
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