Atisha

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

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

I would say to do you and do you well. Don’t try to be anyone else. Don’t try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, don’t try to do what they’re doing. Just keep doing you.

Business is there if you go after it.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.