“Trust yourself and in the universe that everything will work out in the end.”

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

I will be rich or I will die trying.

The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.

If you don’t have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don’t overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.

Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.

The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results.

Either you’re a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won’t be stopped. You choose.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.

The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end.

There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life.

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It’s only one end of the string.

At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don’t put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn’t start going. It’s a car without gas.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.