Quotes About Success

I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Those who work hard will make a profit, but those who only talk will be poor. PROVERBS 14:23

The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

This is a book about winning

the most important key to building wealth is becoming and remaining debt-free.

Si es un tonto y llega a hacerse rico, será el rey de los tontos. Si es generoso y llega a hacerse rico, será más generoso.

cuanto más pronto usted comprenda que nadie se hace rico rápidamente usando información secreta, tanto mejor.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time.

Es verdaderamente difícil vender libros y cintas que enseñen la necesidad de realizar mucho trabajo duro, vivir con menos de lo que se gana, salir de deudas y vivir a base de un plan, pero estoy intentándolo, porque es la única manera de lograr buenos resultados.

Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

Goals Must Have a Time Limit Goals without a time limit are unable to be broken down into micro goals to measure your progress, to observe your traction. You might say, "I want to write a book." Great, when? In twenty years? In twenty months? If you don't put a deadline on the goal it will never happen and you will get to eat the bitter fruit of regret.

If You Don't Know How Money Works . . . What Future Is There in Working for Money?

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

In our National Study of Millionaires, we found that 67% have a paid-off home, and it took them an average of 11.2 years to pay it off. Take that in for a moment: Millionaires don't spend thirty years paying off their house. They pay it off in roughly ten years. They're also not living in a 10,000 square foot mansion. They live, on average, in a 2,600 square foot home they've been in an average of seventeen years.

Millionaires own a paid for home and maybe a beach condo. Millionaires probably live just down the block from you in a normal residential neighborhood. Millionaires often still cut their own grass.

Instead, the top five jobs of Everyday Millionaires came out like this: Engineer Accountant Teacher Management Attorney It's interesting to note that medical doctors did not make the top five and neither did banker.

Traction equals satisfaction

In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Business is really not that hard. You are, however, required to do the basics or you will not win.

People with the spirit of pride believe that money only comes from hard work and force of will. These are performance-based individuals who believe their wealth (and maybe even their spiritual growth) is 100 percent tied to their effort.

Seth Godin says, "Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from." Business is way too hard to work at something just for money.