Goals help you keep in perspective what’s really important so you don’t spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day – putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won’t be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

It’s not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.