Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
Longer Version:
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Longer Version:
Let others lead small lives,but not you. Let others argue over small things,but not you.Let others cry over small hurts,but not you.Let others leave their future in someone elses hands,but not you. not you.
Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.
Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for.
Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.
Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.
From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that it's possible to design and live an extraordinary life.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80% of the difference. Only SIX things!
Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.
It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.
Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.
Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.
You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
Personal development -- the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.
You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.
Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.
Longer Version:
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it,' not 'You go do it.' How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
Longer Version:
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
One customer, well taken care of, could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
