Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

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

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.