Earl Nightingale

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

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

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

Thinking expansively includes seeing what is possible and making it happen.

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

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

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

It is surprinsingly how easy it is to forget that the way to get things done is to do them.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.