“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Passion is the genesis of genius

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

It’s not knowing what to do; it’s doing what you know.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

It is in your moments of decisions that your destiny is shaped

Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

Tomorrow becomes never, no matter how small the task, take the first step now.

Age doesn’t matter: an open mind does.

You don’t need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.

Options – the ability to choose – is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money – a lot more money – by doing half of what you are doing now.

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

Reality is negotiable.

For most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

I remember when I had my first real business anything in college, teaching this accelerated learning seminar. I felt richer than I’d ever felt in my life because I was making $8.00 an hour in the college library.

We all get frustrated. I am particularly prone to frustration when I see little or no progress after several weeks of practicing something new.

I’m really impatient and I get angry about things that I view as deliberately slow and sloppy. And that anger can be harnessed sometimes in a really productive aggression but it also wears you down at both ends.

My mom always encouraged me to march to my own drummer.

I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade.