Blake Mycoskie

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

If it’s flipping burgers at Mcdonald’s, be the best burger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do, you have to master your craft.

I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

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

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.