Earl Nightingale

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Everything begins with an idea.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Excellence always sells.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.