“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.”

“Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.”

“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 biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.”

“Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.”

“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.”

“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

“There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.” —MARK TWAIN”

“Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the “if only’s” from your life.”

“The most important contribution you can make to your company is to be a leader, accept responsibility for results, and dare to go forward.”

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”

“The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.”

“What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”

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