"Deep down you were terrified of taking risks. You really wanted to win, but the fear of losing was greater than the excitement of winning. Deep inside, you and only you will know that you didn't go for it. You chose to play it safe."
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
"You'd best change your point of view...Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else."
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
"To spend your life living in fear, never exploring your dream, is cruel. To work hard for money, thinking that money will buy you things that will make you happy, is also cruel. To wake up in the middle of the night terrified about paying bills is a horrible way to live. To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really a life. Thinking that a job will make you feel more secure is lying to yourself. That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid, if possible. I've seen how money ruins people's lives. Don't let that happen to you, please don't let money ruin your life."
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
"The most powerful tool in any verbal communication is your voice. You can use your voice to intentionally reach into someone's brain and flip an emotional switch."
Chris Voss w/ Tahl Raz
Never Split the Difference
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Steven A. Hitz
Launching Leaders
"Just being themselves is enough. This is where their power lies. Their grandeur is in their pure being."
Steven A. Hitz
Launching Leaders
"This internal dialogue, which we have with ourselves is called 'self-talk.' We are constantly engaged in self-talk. For twenty-three hours each day we talk to ourselves either consciously or subconsciously. Even when we are asleep. Most scientists agree that during the deepest portion of our sleep pattern (about one hour), self-talk is not taking place. Do you know what that means for you? For every year of your life since about age four, you have been talking to yourself for 8,400 hours or in excess of a half million minutes per year...over and over again we confirm and reconfirm who we are and who we are not, what we can do and what we cannot, and thus create a long list of our ability or lack of capability to measure up in certain areas of our lives."
David A. Christensen
Inner Victory
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends & Influence People
"'Knowledge is power.' It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when and if, it is organized into definite plans of actions and directed to a definite end."
Napoloen Hill
Think and Grow Rich
"'The best students are those who never quite believe their professors.' True enough. But he also said, 'one ought not to reject the data merely because one does not like what the data implies.'"
Jim Collins
Good to Great
"What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with inevitable difficulties of life."
Jim Collins
Good to Great
"But she understood that she could, that is was in the realm of possibility, that she was not living in a delusion. And that distinction makes all the difference. It is a distinction that those who want to go from good to great must grasp, and one that those who fail to become great so often never do."
Jim Collins
Good to Great
"Scientists have now found evidence to support the old adage that love is blind. Through brain-imaging studies, researched at University College of London found that 'feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical though.' It seems that once we get close to a person, the brain decides the need to assess their character and personality is reduced."
John Van
How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk
"Beliefs change behavior, and behavior changes beliefs. Try to maintain a belief that you refuse to follow in your behavior, and eventually one will win out. Either you will curb your behavior to match your belief, or you will alter your belief to allow exceptions for your behavior."
John Van