Dr Phil McGraw

This is no dress rehearsal.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha – very real physical protection.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

I was the most productive when I was in a flex situation. Do not check for me for needless meetings.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

It’s a new endeavour for me. I’ve never run a territory. I’ve never talked publicly to people. I’ve got to try it just to see whether I like it.

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.