Quotes from Jeff Olson

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.

The greatest gift you could ever give yourself is also the wisest business investment you could ever make. It is also the most critical step in accomplishing any challenging task, and is the one step without which all other success strategies, no matter how brilliant or time-tested, are doomed to fail. What is this mysterious gift? It is your own personal development. Investing in your own improvement, your own personal growth and betterment, is all these things and more.

Luck is preparedness that eventually creates opportunity!

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

Something is easy not to do when it won't bankrupt you, destroy your career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. GREATNESS IS ALWAYS IN THE MOMENT OF THE DECISION. But you have to start.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life. And a negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turns into negative results, which turns into a negative lifestyle.

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do—even when it doesn't look like it makes any difference.

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

The more success we have, the more greatness we step into and the more abundance we experience, the more responsibility we have to the world around us.

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

I believe we are here to learn and grow, and to become so abundant in belief in ourselves that we finally tap into the full potential of the greatness that is within us and share that greatness with the world.