“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

“Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.

“Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.”

“What excites you? What do you do well? What can you do better? In short what does success mean to you?”

“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true”

“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.”

“The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.”

“What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It’s thinking!”

“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”

“Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear.”

“Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later.”

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

“To earn more you must learn more.”

“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”

“It Doesn’t Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going”