“Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.”

Learn to express, not impress.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you don’t change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Don’t spend major time on minor things.

Don’t say, If I could, I would. Say, If I can, I will.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.