"The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all." Sun Tzu

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett: Investor, billionaire, and philanthropist

NAPOLEON HILL'S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
— Napoleon Hill

Know your own mind, and you will be as wise as the sages.

When you take charge of your mind, you take charge of your life. When you understand your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and desires, you can direct them to any end you choose. Wisdom comes from taking the time to study yourself, to know why you are the person you are. Taking charge of your mind is a thoughtful, reflective, solitary process. Only you can come to understand the complex inner workings of your own mind, and you must be willing to spend the time and effort that gaining such insight requires. http://ping.fm/Co91G

A blind boy paid his way to a master’s degree at Northwestern University by taking notes on class lectures in Braille, typing them, and selling copies to classmates who had stronger eyes but weak ambition... One of the great mysteries of life is why some people who seem to have all the advantages — the right connections, education, and experience — never seem to amount to much while others who have had to struggle for everything they have reach incredible heights of success. It hinges on determination. If you have the will to succeed, you will somehow find a way, regardless of the obstacles you encounter. Do you use all of your assets to achieve your goals, or are you handicapped by your lack of ambition? No other person can create in you a desire to succeed. With enough motivation, you will see things all around you that will help you reach your objectives, things that you may have overlooked many times before.
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea." — Jim Rohn

Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.

“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.” — Steve Job

"Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." ~ Harriet Tubman

"Watch the one ahead of you, and you’ll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him." http://ping.fm/yThNQ

One of the surest ways to achieve success is to observe the actions of successful people, determine what principles they regularly employ, and then use them yourself. The principles of success, as Andrew Carnegie said, are definite, they are real, and they can be learned by anyone willing to take the time to study and apply them. If you are truly observant, you will find that you can learn something from almost everyone you meet. And it isn’t even necessary that you know them. You may choose great people who are no longer alive. The important thing is to study their lives, and then learn and apply in your own life the specific principles these people used to achieve greatness.

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." Napoleon Hill

"Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won."
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"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. And speak from the heart to be heard."

— WILLIAM W. PURKEY

Opportunity

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

"There is no such thing as a problem without a solution, only problems for which we do not yet have enough information to know what the solution is. When you have enough information, it is easy to solve a problem." Jose Silva

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. Chinese proverb

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
: John Wooden

"Know thyself." - Socrates

“You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are" Gangaji

"Don't let fear get in the way of your dreams. Instead remember, courage is the soul of your dreams." ~ Mark McIntosh

"We do not want to gain at someone else's loss; we want to gain while helping the other person to also gain." Jose Silva

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." — Wayne Dyer

“Make good or make room, but don’t make excuses.”

"Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk." Richard Koch

Daniel Burnham, the turn-of-the-century architect and civic planner whose plan for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair had an enormous influence on contemporary civic design, was quoted as saying, “Make no little plans.” He knew that to achieve great things we must have grand ideas. If you can imagine it, you can create it. And if you can create in your imagination the job that you would like to have, it is possible to create it in the real world.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. ~ T.S. Elliot