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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."
"You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall."
"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?'"
"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life."
"If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down."
"All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended."
"In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. 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."
"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."
"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."
"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. 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."
"The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us."
"Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face."
"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes."
"Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development."
"Take advice, but don't take orders."
"I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses."
"In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach."
"Gratitude is what starts the receiving process."
"People would do better, if they knew better."
"Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out."