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"If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building."
"What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?"
"The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are."
"Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family."
"Being is seeing in the human dimension."
"Without trust, the best we can do is compromise."
"Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution."
"Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant."
"The key to motivation is motive."
"Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting."
"The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act"
"Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else."
"Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior."
"You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!"
"This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute."
"I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments."
"If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later."
"Do what is important, not what is urgent."
"Patience is emotional diligence."
"You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things."