Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand.

If you don't do sales and marketing, you'll forever be at mercy to those who do.

If you want to become a great marketer, the place to start is actually selling. one on one, face to face.

You meet yourself when you start selling.

You must accept something before you can change it.

Attraction is not a choice.

Sales is the parent of marketing.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

I'm an addict for underwear.

True love has always been a two-way proposition.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.