In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.

A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.

Failure is a pitfall of working without a plan.

They are probably the single most important deciding factor for long-term success, and your ability to set and make plans to achieve them is the master skill to your successful future.

Your wisdom decides your value, the size of the problems you can solve, the opportunities you create, and ultimately the level of success you experience.

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

Find something about yourself to laugh about every day.

Your life is a direct reflection of your level of investment in yourself, and your success or the lack of it is often decided by your personal development level.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.