Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.