Quotes from Robert Ringer

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

You should never kid yourself about the reality that you must always give something up in order to gain something. If

If you've never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven't tried very hard to succeed. I've never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn't first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

It's not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

The gift of yourself is the most special gift that you have; when you give it away indiscriminately, you cheapen what you have to offer. Special things are for special people.

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.