“You perform at your highest potential only when you are focusing on the most valuable use of your time. This is the key to personal and business success. It is the central issue in personal efficiency and time management. You must always be asking yourself, What is the most valuable use of my time right now? Discipline yourself to work exclusively on the one task that, at any given time, is the answer to this question. Keep yourself on track and focused on your most important responsibilities by asking yourself, over and over, What is the most valuable use of my time right now? How you can apply this law immediately: 1. Remember that you can do only one thing at a time. Stop and think before you begin. Be sure that the task you do is the highest-value use of your time. Remind yourself that anything else you do while your most important task remains undone is a relative waste of time. 2. Be clear about the most valuable work that you do for your organization. Whatever it is, resolve to concentrate on doing that specific task before anything else. Why are you on the payroll? What specific, tangible, measurable results are expected of you? And of all the different results you are capable of achieving, which are the most important to your career at this moment? Whatever the answer, this is where you must focus your energies, and nowhere else.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.”

“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.”

“Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.”

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

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”

“Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”

“The only way to overcome your fears is to "do the thing you fear," as Emerson wrote, "and the death of fear is certain.”

“The very act of visualizing yourself performing at your best prior to any event or activity will improve your performance.”

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

“Communicating is like that, because the way we communicate with our children shows how we feel about ourselves.”

“Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses”

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

“You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.”