"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it." - Jim Rohn

"You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills." - Jim Rohn

Time Management

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.

Time is the best-kept secret of the rich.

By Jim Rohn

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world... Same world." - Wayne Dyer

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." - Jim Rohn

"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully." - Zig Ziglar

"Know where to find the information and how to use it - that's the secret of success." - Albert Einstein

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose." - Thornton Wilder

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life." - Mary Kay Ash

"The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future." - Steve Forbes

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway

RISK

"Thrive on risk as a part of life." - Denis Waitley

"You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go." - Jim Rohn

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick Wilcox

"Dare to risk public criticism." - Mary Kay Ash

"I risked much, but I made much." - P.T. Barnum

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness." - Brian Tracy

PROCRASTINATION

“Procrastination is a favorite hiding place.” - Denis Waitley

“It seems to me that it’s actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get the sale.” - Jeffrey Gitomer

“One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.” - Vincent T. Foss

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” - William James

PROBLEM SOLVING

“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” - Carl Jung

“Avoiding a problem doesn’t solve it.” - Bonnie Jean Thornley

“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” - Theodore Rubin

PRESENTATION

“If you want to know what the audience is thinking, ask them.” - Tony Jeary

“Make intangible benefits tangible by showing the financial impact your product or service can have.” - Brian Tracy

“Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don’t need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.” - Jim Rohn

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Carl W. Buechner

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere. - Zig Ziglar

"Make a notation in your calendar to review your goals weekly and to grade yourself at the end of the month. Actually schedule time to work on and achieve your goals." - Raymond Aaron

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara DeAngelis

"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much." - William Dempster Hoard

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement - success will follow." - Helen Hayes

PREPARATION

“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.” - Merlin Olsen

“What distinguishes winners is the will to prepare to win.” - Tony Jeary

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” - Whitney Young Jr.

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” - Benjamin Disraeli

POTENTIAL/POSSIBILITIES

“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” - Charles du Bois

“The only limitation in your life is the limitation of your own thinking.” - James A. Ray

“Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be.” - Lucas Hellmer

“Dwell in possibility.” - Emily Dickinson

POSITIVE vs. NEGATIVE

“I praise loudly; I blame softly.” - Catherine the Second

“Dwell on the reward, and you move toward it. Dwell on the penalty, and you move away from the reward.” - Denis Waitley

“It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important.” - Zig Ziglar

“Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” - Helen Keller

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” - Pat Riley

“The noblest search is the search for excellence.” - Lyndon B. Johnson

“Don't get complacent. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and set higher standards of achievement for yourself. Once you've achieved a standard of excellence, never let it rest—push yourself even higher.” - Dave Anderson

Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.” - Harvey Mackay

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” - Willa A. Foster

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” - Vincent T. Lombardi

“Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.” - Brian Tracy

"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward with the life that God intended for you." - Og Mandino

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy

Change the World!

Some people literally change the world; people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin.

Although it's an ambitious goal to change the world, we often underestimate our singular power to change the world of those around us. We don't have to be Oprah giving away new cars to positively change someone's world. We each have that same power. We don't even have to do anything! We only have to say three simple words.

Try one of these three-word, power-packed statements to change someone's world:

 I love you.

 I thank you.

 You are terrific.

 I am sorry.

 I trust you.

 I promise you. (and keep it!)

 God bless you.

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara DeAngelis

A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Harry F. Banks

"All things are difficult before they are easy." - Thomas Fuller

"Know where to find the information and how to use it - that's the secret of success." - Albert Einstein

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose." - Thornton Wilder

"Refuse to let your present results influence your thinking. Keep reminding yourself that you have a power within you that is superior to any condition or circumstance you may encounter enroute to your goal." - Bob Proctor

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." - Paramahansa Yogananda

"Wealthy people tend to be orderly, while those who struggle have lots of messes. Each mess is a lock on the gate that keeps abundance out." - Raymond Aaron

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for." - Zig Ziglar

"The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth." - Maxwell Maltz

"Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill

"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." - Napoleon Hill

"The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future." - Steve Forbes

"In my experience, there is no such thing as luck." - George Lucas

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." - Walter Anderson

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge; both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." - Napoleon Hill

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Our greatest success will come just one step away from our greatest failure". - Napoleon Hill

"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do." - Napoleon Hill

"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." - Abraham H. Maslow

"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting." - Arthur Brisbane

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Harry F. Banks