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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none. Zero.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.
You need a story to displace a story.
The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
You should have a bias to action. You have 100 decisions a day, but no definitive answers on any of them, if you sit and analyze the world will pass you by. A good plan executed now is better than a great plan executed later.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
Wanting more information is often just a form of procrastination.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
A good advertisement is one that sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
We make advertisements that people want to read. You can’t save souls in an empty church.
A goal without a plan is only a wish.
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The key is not the will to win. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle.