“The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.

“What one great thing would you dare to dream, if you knew you could not fail?”

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

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

“Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.”

“No person or situation can make you feel anything-it is only the way you think about a situation that makes you feel the way you do.”

“Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do”

“When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.”

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

“You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.”

“the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

“When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.”

“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.”

“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current  job, industry, education, experience or interests.”