If you want to earn more, learn more.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

All one needs to do is read — books, magazines, research the Internet — and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

When you make a promise, keep it.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

ou were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things — to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Every choice you make has an end result.

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

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

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

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

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

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

Success is dependent upon the glands — sweat glands.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

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

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won’t buy me a friend.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.