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A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?

Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

Creativity is thinking big.

Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You.

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

Feeling prosperous means paying your utility bills on time and with a smile on your face. Prosperity means not only giving to the homeless person, but having a smile on your face when you do it. Prosperity also means buying fresh produce with a smile on your face instead of buying day-old bread or bargain overripe fruit with a scowl on your face. Still more, being prosperous means tipping generously with a smile on your face when the waiter has given you great service instead of trying to stiff him with a mere percent, or worse, no tip at all.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.