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

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

“You are what you think you are. Your self-concept determines your performance.”

Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

“If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”

“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.”

“Whenever you face crunch time in your life or business, mentally call a time-out in the game and focus on getting all the information you can about the situation before you make a decision or overreact.”

“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and  respect yourself.”

“Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.”

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

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”

“Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”

“The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, ‘Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.”

“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”