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500+ timeless quotes on success, leadership, personal development, and living an extraordinary life.
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500+ timeless quotes on success, leadership, personal development, and living an extraordinary life.
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"Learn how to separate your attitude from your income. An attitude can be priceless, no matter the size of your paycheck."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources."
Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan."
Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
"The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The next season after fall is winter, of course. Every time, without fail, for at least 6,000 years. It isn't going to change."
Source: The Seasons of Life
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment repeated every day."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"Take action. An imperfect plan vigorously executed is far better than a perfect plan on paper."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"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."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"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. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"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."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"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."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
Source: Seminars and Speeches
"What is easy to do is also easy not to do."
Source: Various seminars
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
Source: The Art of Exceptional Living
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."
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"Most everyone has already got something. The big question is, what are you doing with it?"
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Happiness is something you have to work on besides money because the money won't make you happy."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"The man reads the comics instead of the classics, and he misses all the things that could really benefit his life."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Rarely does a good idea interrupt you. Good ideas must be pursued."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"The plans we learn when we're small, sure enough, are most often the plans we follow the rest of our lives."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"If you earned well and didn't live well, that would be pitiful."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"At the end of your life, you don't want to wake up and discover that you've only lived one tenth of it."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"If you will do this, you will become among the few who do that, become the envy of all who watch."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Legitimate ambition hopes to rise by helping others to rise."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"You can lose the money but not the skills."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Don't start the day until you have it finished."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"A few simple disciplines practiced every day starts to create success."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"A skill is more valuable than a sale. Sales are temporary. Skills are permanent."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"You don't just need the answer to a problem. You need the answer muscle."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"A few errors in judgment repeated every day is the formula for failure."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"Make sure the money is the smallest part of your investment."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"The greatest inventory is the inventory of the mind, the inventory of the personality."
Source: Weekend Seminar
"I could milk cows when I grew up in farm country in Idaho. But it didn't pay very well. The first skill that revolutionized my life was sales. So now I got two skills — milking cows and making sales."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"With ideas, you can affect the lives directly and indirectly of thousands, tens of thousands, and maybe for some of you, millions of people. Because the ideas you share won't be lost. They'll be invested in someone else who will pass them on."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"What if you went to listen to the symphony orchestra and it only played little happy high notes all evening? Don't you want to hear the crash of the cymbals? Play me the whole orchestra. I can handle it."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"There's never been a double night. How long is the night? It's only a few hours. Couldn't you make it a few more hours? Sure enough, it will pass."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Don't build your house on the sand in the summer. It's easy to get faked out when it's nice. Blue sky, fleecy clouds, nice weather. You must think storm in the summer."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Ants never quit. If an ant is headed somewhere and you stop him, he'll start looking for another way. How long will he look? Till he finds it or till he dies."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"You cannot change the seasons. But you can change yourself."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"What you become is much more valuable than what you get. The major question to ask on the job is not what am I getting here? The major question is what am I becoming here?"
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Success is something you attract by the person you become. Success is not something you pursue, chase, run after. Success is something you develop, something you become."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living, which is noble. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune, which is exciting."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"You can't get rich by demand. It's the wrong philosophy. And here's what would be tragic — all your working life to live in the right country and have the wrong philosophy. You get rich by performance, not by demand."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"If you found a Congressional Medal of Honor, would you wear it? No. So it's not the medal that's important, it's earning it that's important. What's important is to know that you have deserved it."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"A child says, I need $10. That doesn't unlock the vault. What unlocks the vault? How could I earn $10? There's plenty of money. You just got to use the right language and the vault comes open."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"All life seems to wish to reward its benefactor. If you become the benefactor to the garden, the flowers seem to bloom and say, look at me. Look how bright and beautiful I am because you took care of me."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Finding is reserved for those that search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you. Good ideas are like mining for gold. You got to develop the mental machinery to go look. Go sifting. Go searching."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"In order to reap, you must plant. Guess who deserves to reap? Those who plant."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Life responds to deserve, not to need. Life was not designed to give us what we need. Life was designed to give us what we deserve."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Someone says, if I had a fortune, I'd really take good care of it. But I've only got a paycheck, I don't know where it goes. Should we let you run the company? You don't know where it all goes."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"If you wish to be ruler over many, be faithful when the amounts are small. Take exceptionally good care of the 3 or 4. The many will come if you pass the test of the few."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Service to many leads to greatness. Now at first that doesn't seem to create personal greatness — serving others. But that's what education is all about: to take what at first seems to be the best and then find out later, no, that's not the best."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Thanksgiving opens up the windows of possibility. Opens the door to receive even more. Here's what closes all doors: cynicism. Cynicism locks up all the doors, closes all the channels and the windows of opportunity."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"There's a difference between a point of view and the point of view."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Be a student, not a follower. Someone says, I read this book, should I follow? No. Read at least two books and make up your own mind. Make sure what you finally do is the product of your own conclusion."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"If you read a novel as a teenager, it has certain meanings. In your 30s, it starts to really change. You're beginning to say, now I understand what the author was really trying to show. In my teens, it was a story. In my 30s, it's an application to my life."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Sincerity is not a test of truth. It's possible to be sincerely wrong. The only test of truth is truth, not sincerity."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Somebody says, I got 20 more years. Jot this down — you've got 20 more times. If you go fishing once a year, you've only got 20 more times to go fishing."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"You never know who may be in your audience. You just don't know. Each individual is important. Always do your best, always be sincere, and always tell as much of your story as you can to help someone else."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"You get your own planet, you could rearrange it some other way. On this planet, we seem to be guests. So you figure out how this one works."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Here's what we have to do with most mysteries. Leave them mysteries and learn to be curious instead of dismayed."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"A human being's two major objectives: first, we must learn to survive. Second, then we learn to succeed, which is beyond survival. But most people settle in just in sort of the survival mode — enough to get by."
Source: Weekend Seminar (Live Lecture)
"Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvass, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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!"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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 powerful all of us are."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"May you live a remarkable and memorable life."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"I wish for you a similar journey, from where you may be at the moment, to where you want to go and to what you want to become."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Whatever understanding I may have of life and business is the result of having feasted on a rich diet of ideas from others whose words caused me to find new ways of expressing old ideas."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts been brought from all over the world and deposited in one country."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"America is unique because it offers you an economic ladder to climb. And here’s what’s exciting: It is the bottom of the ladder that is crowded, not the top."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It is my hope that in these pages you will find the words that will stimulate you to stand up and step forth. After all, it was three simple words, spoken by a dying mother to her son, that dramatically changed the life of a boy and our nation. The words “Be somebody, Abe” so inspired a young boy from Illinois that he went on to become the sixteenth President of the United States."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"There are many reasons why self expression is such an important skill to master. Ultimately, the very quality of our own lives is largely determined by our ability to persuade and to convince others, as well as by our ability to transfer accurately our own thoughts and feelings into the mind of someone else."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"That, in the final analysis, is the greatest contribution we can make to the life of another — to enable them to feel new hope, sense new emotions, and see new possibilities."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It has been said that Winston Churchill “organized the English language and sent it into battle.” It was his unique choice of words and the intensity behind them that fueled the mind, rekindled the shaken spirit, and brought a new determination to the people of Great Britain in their time of great crisis. Without the powerful eloquence of this extraordinary man, the course of history may have made the present very different for us all."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Whether you stay six weeks, six months, or six years, always leave it better than you found it."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Only three percent!"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"This book is a compilation of some of the thoughts I have written or spoken over the years. But I can take little credit for the originality of any of these expressions."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not for the time."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost if you don’t read it."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"If you don’t like how things are, change it!"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"There are no new fundamentals. You’ve got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, “I’ve got a new fundamental.” That’s like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"I now have one of the better libraries. I’ll admit that I haven’t read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Is this a goal I have been ingrained with since my childhood?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Four powerful little words: learn, try, stay and care."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Jim authored countless books and audio and video programs, and helped motivate and shape an entire generation of personal-development trainers and hundreds of executives from America’s top corporations."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Self expression. Isn’t self expression really self direction?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The tide comes in and then what? It goes back out. It’s been that way for at least 6,000 years of recorded history."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Except for one thing. I didn’t have two dollars! Boy, was I embarrassed! Here I was — a father, had been to college, was gainfully employed — and yet I didn’t have two dollars to my name."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The next season after fall is — ? Winter, of course. Every time, without fail, for at least 6,000 years. It isn’t going to change."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Naturally, I couldn’t tell this to the little girl with the big, brown eyes. So I did the next best thing. I lied to her. I said, “Thanks, but I’ve already bought Girl Scout cookies this year. And I’ve still got plenty in the h o u s e .” Now that simply wasn’t true. But it was the only thing I could think of to get me off the hook. And it did. The little girl said, “That’s okay, sir. Thank you very much.” And with that, she turned around and went on her way."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Shortly before I met Mr. Shoaff, I was lounging at home one day when I heard a knock at the door. It was a timid, hesitant knock. When I opened the door I looked down to see a pair of big brown eyes staring up at me. There stood a frail little girl of about ten."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Six thousand years of recorded history reads like this: opportunity mixed with difficulty."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It gets light and then what? It turns dark."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Desperation is the final and inevitable result of months or years of accumulated neglect that brings us to that point in time where we find ourselves driven by urgent necessity to find immediate answers to life’s accumulated challenges."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Aren’t you glad I shared that with you? It’s not everyone who gets to hear this."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Sometimes our circumstances can become so out of control that we almost abandon our search for answers because our lives seem to be filled only with irresolvable questions. But it is this overwhelming sense of desperation that finally drives us to look for the solutions."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Is this someone else’s direction?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Is this the direction I want for my life?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
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Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Ambition is a result of self direction and self direction is one of the six key principles necessary for building ambition. Positive self direction says, “I know who I am and I know where I want to go. I’m accumulating knowledge and experiences and feelings and philosophies that will help prepare me for opportu nities that I know will show up without notice or any help on my part.” Because you know where you want to go, you have already been working on the parts of your personality that will make you better. Working on your attitude, working on your health, working on your time management skills. Putting it all down on paper. And you constantly see yourself in the place you want to be, going in the direction you want to go."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"To order, go to store.JimRohn.com or call 800-929-0434."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"How you think, how you move, how you moti vate yourself."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It’s going to be about the way it’s always been."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Is this goal my parent’s, my spouse’s, my boss my children’s or is it MINE?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right. Writing creates a space between you and the problem, and it is within this space that solutions have room to grow."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"He is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of our time."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The major value in life is what you become."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It’s part of the mysteries of life. Give a lecture to a thousand people. One walks out and says, “I’m going to change my life.” Another one walks out with a yawn, muttering to himself “I’ve heard all this before.” Why is that? Why wouldn’t both be affected the same way? Another mystery. The millionaire says to a thousand people, “I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.” Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"You think I’m crazy? No way.” The scorpion said, “Hey, hold it a minute."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"They found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"But the information would be very valuable — how someone who had it all, messed it up. Learning from other people’s experiences and mistakes."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"A conscious process is at work. Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be. If that decision making process is not present, you will still be somebody. You will still be alive, but may have a personality rather than a character."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Character is not something you were born with and can’t change like your fingerprint. In fact, because you weren’t born with it, it is something that you must take responsibility for creating."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"What you don’t know WILL hurt you. You have to have learning to exist, let alone succeed. Life is worth while if you learn from your own experiences, negative or positive. We learn to do it right by first sometimes doing it wrong. We call that a positive negative."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Sometimes calamity comes and then it is worth wrap ping it up. And that’s the end, but just don’t end in the middle. Maybe on the next project you pass, but on this one, if you signed up, see it through. 4) Life is worthwhile if you CARE. If you care at all you will get some results, if you care enough you can get incredible results. Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Somebody says, “As soon as the product arrives I’ll sell it.” No, no, you don’t understand. You don’t understand the magic of fortune if you say I have to wait till the product gets here. And you probably don’t understand the value of your own story."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The frog cannot believe what has happened and he says to the scorpion, “Why did you do that? I’m about to die and drown, but so are you. Why did you do that?” And the scorpion said, “Because I am a s c o r p i o n .” So all leaders must understand the story of the frog and the scorpion. There are shepherds and there are sheep and there are wolves."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Care enough to start a new enterprise. Care enough to change it all. Care enough to be the highest producer Care enough to set some records. Care enough to win."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Try to make a difference, try to make some progress, try to learn a new skill, try to learn a new sport. Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn’t mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try. Try your best. Give it every effort. Why not go all out? 3) Life is worthwhile if you STAY. You have to stay from spring until harvest. If you have signed up for the day or for the game or for the project — see it through."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"We also learn from other people’s experiences, both positive and negative. I’ve always said it is too bad failures don’t give seminars. We don’t want to pay them so they don’t tour around giving seminars."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Don’t mistake movement for achievement."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It’s okay to send flowers, but don’t let flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"A guy says, “Oh, if I had a big organization, then I’d really pour it on. But I just have a few and I don’t know where they’re at.” If you just have a few distributors, a few employees, that’s the time to sharpen your skills of communication and pour it on. When there are just a few, give it all you’ve got."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The major value in life is not what you get."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"About the closest that any of us can get is what we hope is the truth or what we think is the truth. That’s why the best approach to truth is probably to say, “It seems to me...” There is nothing wrong with affirmations, provided what you are affirming is the truth."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he’s so sincere. It is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"If you are broke, for example, the best thing to affirm is, “I’m broke.” If the truth isn’t enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Don’t sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?"
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That 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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living, the skill will make you a fortune."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"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."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things."
Source: The Treasury of Quotes
"Money doesn’t make you sophisticated. Only study and practice make you sophisticated."
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"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!"
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"Don’t spend major money on minor things."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull."
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"Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school."
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"Sophistication is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures."
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"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."
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"In the last ten years the guy has bought two tons of donuts and only two books — and the books are filled primarily with pictures."
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"Plant, don’t chant."
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"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!"
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"If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is 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."
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"Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires’ Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, “You’re doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!” Be a student, not a follower. Don’t just go do what someone says. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles."
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"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy."
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"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?"
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"Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are."
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"Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals, and the minor keys."
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"Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"
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"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."
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"Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself."
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"How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"Sales 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."
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"In the sales profession the real work begins after the sale is made."
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"Accuracy builds credibility."
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"Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were little, happy, high notes? Would you leave soon?"
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"Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word “no” mean to a child? Almost nothing!"
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"You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is."
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"Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom."
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"You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an axe, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skill."
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"Wouldn’t that be easy to do — to eat an apple a day? Here’s the problem: It’s also easy not to do."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you."
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"Start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go."
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"In leadership we teach: Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it won’t help. Duck finishes eagle school, sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend."
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"Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are."
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"Some people have learned to earn well but they haven’t learned to live well."
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"Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don’t waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who."
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"Let others cry over small hurts, but not you."
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"Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you."
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"We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are."
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"Neglect starts out as an infection, then becomes a disease."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Don’t borrow someone else’s plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places."
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"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."
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"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."
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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?"
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"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."
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"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."
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"How long should you try? Until."
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"What you become directly influences what you get."
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"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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"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."
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"Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives. That is why it is important to be a serious student of both."
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"Life is part positive and part negative."
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"The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don’t have it well designed."
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"If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy."
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"Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone’s personal philosophy."
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"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 think that it doesn’t matter."
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"Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."
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"Leadership is the great challenge of the twenty first 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 twenty first century."
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"Lifestyle is not an amount; it is a practice—the art of creating value and style with whatever you have, wherever you are, with whomever you are with."
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"Did you ever eat a government cookie? The real genius to make a marketplace flourish does not come from the government, it comes from the genius of the people."
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"How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness."
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"Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers."
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"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."
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"I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40; 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for the 35."
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"An ancient script asks, “Would you let a man rule the city who cannot even rule his own spirit?” Sometimes we do."
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"If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people."
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"Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance."
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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."
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"The mind and the body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and the spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there."
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"Taxes are our way of feeding the goose that lays the golden eggs of freedom, democracy, and enterprise. Someone says, “Well, the goose eats too much.” That’s probably true."
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"What should a child do with a dollar? Here’s one philosophy: It’s only a child and it’s only a dollar, so what difference does it make? Wow, what a philosophy! Where do you suppose everything starts for the future? Here’s where it starts — it starts with a child and a dollar You say, “Well, he’s only a child once. Let him spend it all.” Well, when would you hope that would stop? When he’s fifty and broke like you?"
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"The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside."
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"Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you."
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"One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration."
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"Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high."
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"Of course, kids should pay taxes. Tell little Johnny that if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud, he’s got to pay three more pennies when he buys a candy bar."
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"Even kids can get started on becoming financially independent. Kids can make profits long before they can legitimately earn wages."
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"Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance."
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"Ideas can be life changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."
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"When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value."
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"The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them."
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"Ideas are information taking shape."
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"One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started — liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years — conservative."
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"How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them."
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"Don’t use your mind for a filing cabinet."
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"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!"
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"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?"
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"Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours."
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"Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association."
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"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."
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"The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance."
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"What you don’t know will hurt you."
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"Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed."
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"Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs."
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"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve, not need."
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"Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design."
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"You cannot base your life on what the government does or how your tax dollars are being spent. You’ve got to vote well, and then chart your own course; vote well, and then take charge of your own life."
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"How do you build a bridge between age 12 and age 40? By remembering."
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"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will be being frustrated by it."
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"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."
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"Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much."
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"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."
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"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
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"One of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence."
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"We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life."
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."
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"Nothing teaches character better than generosity."
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"Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease."
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"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."
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"When somebody shares, everybody wins."
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"The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life."
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"What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future."
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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
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"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."
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"Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources."
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"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!” We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What’s even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune."
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"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 successes."
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"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!"
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"Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it."
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"Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune."
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"The more you care, the stronger you can be."
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"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."
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"Casualness leads to casualties."
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"Don’t take the casual approach to life."
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"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of your attention."
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"Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes."
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"Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity."
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"Fascinated people want to learn how it works."
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"Interested people want to know if it works."
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"It’s too bad failures don’t give seminars."
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"I’m on my way to the airport to catch a plane that leaves in 45 minutes. The traffic is not moving one inch. I am now fascinated — not frustrated, but fascinated. But I must admit, it doesn’t work every time."
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"It easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It’s easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you."
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"The more you know, the less you need to say."
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"But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles."
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"Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions."
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"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."
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"It’s not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it."
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"Measure your emotions. You don’t need an atomic explosion for a minor point."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education."
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"Education must precede motivation."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."
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"Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles."
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"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure."
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"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?"
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"Somebody says, “I have a great idea for the country.” We say, “Wonderful! Put it on the table. Let’s debate.” And we start the debate by questioning the guy who has this great idea. After the third question he says, “I withdraw my great idea. I forgot about those three questions.” There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. The key is to take careful notes first and debate second."
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"One discipline always leads to another discipline."
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"Learning is the beginning of wealth."
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"Communication is the ability to affect other people with words."
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"We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want."
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"You’ve got to have a better plan for your life."
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"Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own."
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"Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."
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"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."
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"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
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"It’s so easy to make a mistake in language if you aren’t careful. What if you meant to say, “What’s troubling you?” and what you actually said was, “What’s wrong with you?” Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect."
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"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."
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"On the way to work, concentrate on the way—not on the work."
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"Indecision is the thief of opportunity."
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"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
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"Don’t mix the two."
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"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
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"When you work, work. When you play, play."
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"Don’t mistake courtesy for consent."
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