“Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything”

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!

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.