Master Sheng-yen

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

Every choice you make has an end result.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

Remember there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just unrealistic time frames!

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.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something that mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.