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"Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life."
"Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution."
"Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person."
"There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price."
"What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life."
"Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first."
"Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have."
"For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you."
"You become what you think about most of the time."
"Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability."
"Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else."
"Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it."
"Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions."
"To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world."
"Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem."
"Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves."
"The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past."
"The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself"
"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."
"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time."