| "Practice
is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a
living; the skill will make you a fortune." – Jim
Rohn
"The
will to believe is perhaps the most powerful but certainly
the most dangerous human attribute." – Dero Ames
Saunders
"To survive, to avert what we
have termed future shock, the individual must become
infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever
before." – Alvin Toffler
"It is a fabulous country, the
only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles
not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
– Thomas Wolfe
"The school is not the end but
only the beginning of an education." -Calvin Coolidge
"It's good to have money and the
things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once
in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things
money can't buy." -George Horace Lormier
"Everyone is ignorant, only on
different subjects." -Will Rogers
"If money is your hope for
independence, you will never have it. The only real security
that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability." -Henry Ford
"Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all,
confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted
for something, and that this something, at whatever cost,
must be attained." – Marie Curie
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more
money, but you cannot get more time." – Jim Rohn
"Sales
people should take lessons from their kids. What does the
word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing!"
– Jim Rohn
"Creativity
is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us
will put more and better ideas if our efforts are
appreciated." – Alexander Osburn
"You can accomplish anything in
life, provided that you do not mind who gets the
credit." – Harry S. Truman
"It is better to know some of the
questions than all of the answers." – James Thurber
"Grey
clouds are just clouds passing over." – Duke
Ellington
"We
see things not as they are, but as we are." – H.M.
Tomlinson
"Government's view of the company
could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax
it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it." – Ronald Reagan
"One man with courage makes a
majority." – Andrew Jackson
"The
more goals you set, the more goals you get." – Mark
Victor Hansen
"Everything
comes to him who hustles while he waits." – Thomas
Edison
"Never
give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in
nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in
except to convictions of honor and good sense." –
Winston Churchill
"Self- control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders
generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer
time span than those they lead." – Gerald Faust
"If you
think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're
right!" – Mary Kay Ash
"In
business, the competition will bite if you keep running; if
you stand still, they will swallow you." – William
Knudsen Jr.
"When one
door closes, another opens; but we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has
opened for us." – Alexander Graham Bell
"The
toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on
being success." – Irving Berlin
"A
life is not important except in the impact it has on other
lives." – Jackie Robinson
"The first great gift we can
bestow on others is a good example." -Thomas Morell
"Difficulty is the excuse history
never accepts." – Edward R. Murrow
"Don't measure yourself by what you've accomplished,
but rather by what you should have accomplished with your
abilities." - John Wooden
"America
is unique because it offers you an economic ladder to climb.
And here's what's exciting: It is the bottom of the ladder
that is crowded, not the top." – Jim Rohn
"Every liability is just an asset
in hiding." – Mark Victor Hansen
"So long as I am acting from duty
and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I
think they will probably do me more good than harm."
– Winston Churchill
"None are so empty as those who
are full of themselves." – Andrew Jackson
"No matter what the level of your ability, you have
more potential than you can ever develop in a
lifetime." – James T. McKay
"Moral
courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great
intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of
those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully
to change." – Robert Kennedy
"Ignorance is not bliss, it is
oblivion." -Philip Wylie
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our
deeds." -George Eliot
"Advice is
like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind." – Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
"If
things start going wrong, having a consistent approach
prevents panic. There is nothing worse than entering an
important situation and changing the way you do things
because of pressure." -Shane Murphy
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had
better aim at something high." – Henry David Thoreau
"It's
better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your
life." -Elizabeth Kenny
"Whatever you want wants you even more than you want
it." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Assumption
is the mother of mistakes." – Angelo Donghia
"This
will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the
home of the brave." – Elmer Davis
"Effective managers live in the present, but
concentrate on the future." – James Hayes
"In
the war between falsehood and truth, falsehood often wins
the first battle, but truth wins the last." – Mujibur
Ruhman
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any other one thing."
– Abraham Lincoln
"What
is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness
himself." – Abraham Maslow
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the
talent that rubs against it." – William Bernbach
"Wise man
talk because they have something to say; fools talk because
they
have to say something." - Plato
"A business, like an automobile, has to be driven in
order to get results." – B.C. Forbes
"The
brighter you are, the more you have to learn." – Don
Herold
"It is never too late to be what you might have
been." – George Eliot
"Experience
is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what
happens to you." – Aldous Huxley
"You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is
willing to climb himself." – Andrew Carnegie
"Whoever is
happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and
faith will never perish in misery." – Anne Frank
"No
one can build his security upon the nobleness of another
person." – Willa Cather
"There is no security on this earth; there is only
opportunity." – Douglas MacArthur
"You may be
disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't
try." – Beverly Sills
"There
are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning
and yearning." – Christopher Morley
"There is more credit and
satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a
tenth-rate executive." – B.C. Forbes
"We can no more afford to spend major time on minor
things than we can to spend minor time on major
things." – Jim Rohn
"No
one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most important single
ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people." – Theodore Roosevelt
"You don't become enormously successful without
encountering some really interesting problems." –
Mark Victor Hansen
"All
that I know, I learned after I was 30." – George
Clemenceau
"I built my talents on the
shoulders of someone else's talent. Without Julius Erving,
David Thompson, Walter Davis and Elgin Baylor, there never
would have been a Michael Jordan. I evolved from them."
– Michael Jordan
"Take ownership of an idea and the idea will take
ownership of you." – Mark Victor Hansen
"It is
better to be lender than a spender." – Jim Rohn
"The
spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the
pillars of society." -Henrik Ibsen
"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or
somebody else's results." – Mark Victor Hansen
"The
cruelest lies are often told in silence." – Robert
Louis Stevenson
"Predetermine the objectives you
want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to
accomplish big results." – Mark Victor Hansen
"One customer, well taken care of, could be more
valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising." – Jim
Rohn
"Self-pity
is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do
anything wise in the world." – Helen Keller
"Millions long for immortality
who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon." – Susan Ertz
"It is far more impressive when others discover your
good qualities without your help." – Judith Martin
"When
fortune smiles, embrace her." – Thomas Fuller
"Make
rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to
gather strength." – Jim Rohn
"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste
it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." -Jim
Rohn
"Set
too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a
tendency to be realized all at once." – Mark Victor
Hansen
"I know that creation is an intellectual and bodily
discipline, a school of energy. I have never achieved
anything in anarchy or physical slackness." – Albert
Camus
"The
thing from which the work suffers more than from any other
evil is not the assertion of falsehood, but the endless and
irrepressible repetition of half-truths." – G.K.
Chesterton
"The ultimate result of shielding
men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with
fools." – Herbert Spencer
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is
necessary to victory." – William Hazlitt
"The glory
of great men must always be measured against the means they
have used to acquire it." – La Rochefoucauld
"Prefer
a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the
moment, the other for all time." – Chilon
"There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a
fortune by speculation and kept it." – Andrew
Carnegie
"Never tell
people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they'll
surprise you with their ingenuity." — George S.
Patton
"Golden
Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a
business profitably as are trucks, typewriters or
twine." — James Cash Penney
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is
required of a person that you should share the passion and
the action of time at peril of being judged not to have
lived." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Men are
wise, not in proportion to their experience, but to their
capacity for experience." — George Bernard Shaw
"The
best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats
people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats
people who can't fight back". — Abigail Van Buren
"Our purpose in life is not to get ahead of other
people, but to get ahead of ourselves." — Nathaniel
Emmons
"It
is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little
ones." — John W. De Forest
"There will never be another now — I will make the
most of today. There will never be another me — I will
make the most of myself." — Robert H. Schuller
"You
don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to
do right. Or if not right, doing it the best you can. What
can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you
can." — Joe Namath
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up." —
Thomas Edison
"Man
must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and
learn to exercise his will — his personal
responsibility." — Albert Schweitzer
"The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding
vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do
— professionally and personally — and the strength to
persist in the face of setbacks, even failures." —
Warren Bennis
"The
principle of competing is against yourself. It's about
self-improvement, about being better than you were the day
before." — Steve Young
"To
win, you have to risk loss." — Jean-Claude Killy
"Nothing else can quite
substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words
of praise. They're absolutely free — and worth a
fortune." — Sam Walton
|