“Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.”

Don’t limit yourself.

I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn’t have this spirit, chances are you won’t find it anywhere else in the organization.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.

People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.

Nothing happens until somebody sells something!

We are meant to use and increase whatever God has given us. And when we do, we shall be given more.

To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.

If you have an idea and I have an idea – then we EACH have JUST ONE idea; but if you share your idea with me and I do the same, we EACH have TWO ideas!

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I believe I am happy. I don’t think I have achieved happiness in all areas of my life yet. As far as success is concerned, my family is being taken care of. But I think the last level of happiness would be becoming a father.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.