Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

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.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.