Jerome K. Jerome

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

Moving from survival to stability, from stability to success, from success to significance.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.