"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success."

"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."

"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."

"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear."

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."

"An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals."

"Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have."

"Develop the winning edge, small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."

"Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent."

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses."

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."

"Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster."

"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."

"The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself."

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

"Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."

"You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't."

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

"Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

"Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality."

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

"One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all."

"The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services."

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

"You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in."

"The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous."

"The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all......58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school-including 42% of university graduates......43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald's..."

"Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true."

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."

"You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being."