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80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.

Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

An undefined goal is unreachable.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.