Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.

I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.