Paula Amato

Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!