“Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.”

The good news is that it doesn’t cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

The truth is that money doesn’t make you rich; knowledge does.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.

Some people worry. Others prepare.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man’s attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.

People don’t like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you’ve got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

It’s up to to you to perfect that gift that you’ve been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

Fear is a great signal. It’s like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.