December 2011
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The SUCCESS magazine publisher and author of The Compound Effect describes how to change the trajectory of our lives and shares the story of the “magic penny.”
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Most people die with their music still inside them.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with...
– William George Jordan
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When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can...
– Charles Schwab
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We become what we think about most of the time.
– Earl Nightingale
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The problem with most people is they are playing the world’s most...
– Earl Nightingale
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Be bold & courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret...
– H. Jackson Brown
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Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would...
– Brendan Behan
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The first recipe of happiness – avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
– Andre Maurois
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real...
– Henry Ford
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Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
– P. T. Barnum
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Best keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see...
– George Bernard Shaw
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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as...
– Nolan Bushnell
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
– Vincent Van Gogh
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work.
– Thomas Edison
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It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
– Sister Elizabeth Kenny
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In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest on our laurels, or...
– Walt Disney
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We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
– Rutherford D. Rogers
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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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What man actually needs is not a tension-less state but rather the striving and...
– Viktor E. Frankl
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If something is not happening for you it doesn’t mean it’s never...
– Unknown
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There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re...
– Unknown
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Train your weaknesses and race your strengths.
– Unknown
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The richest soil, uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
– Plutarch
No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down to lift up another...
– Tim Russert
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
– Pythagoras
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On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see...
– Denis Waitley and Reni L. Witt
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself...
– Arnold Bennett
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The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of...
– Geoffrey Gaberino, Olympic gold medalist
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...
– Soren Kierkegaard
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An unused life is an early death.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
– Henry Van Dyke
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.
– Roger Staubach
What’s our success formula? It’s attention to detail, the little...
– John Hench, Walt Disney Imagineering
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
– William Arthur Ward
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When people are bored, it is primarily with themselves.
– Eric Hoffer
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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
– Billy Graham
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
– Vince Lombardi
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter...
– Aldous Huxley
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself...
– Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;...
– Thomas Jefferson
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing...
– Andrew Carnegie
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
– Aristotle
Fast Company: Richard Branson: Screw Business As... →
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When the pain of what we are going through becomes greater than the fear of...
– Garrison Wynn
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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better....
– Jim Carrey
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Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths...
– Cecile Springer
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Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves.
– Joyce Lock