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"Americans are incredibly inpatient. 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."
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure."
"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
"Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?"
"motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot."
"The more you care, the stronger you can be."
"The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever."
"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."
"If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune."
"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."
"Learn to express, not impress."
"We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need"
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change"
"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation."
"Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places."
"When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier."
"Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things."
"Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us."