“If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.”

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

It’s the risk takers that move the human race forward.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success – and persist when there is every reason to give up.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.