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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one

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

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

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.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

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.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

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.

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.