Henry Ford on how to make hard work easy
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
— Henry Ford
Robert Collier on the steps to success
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
Zig Ziglar on The power of focus
“I don’t care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”
— Zig Ziglar
the benefits of a disability
If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Bruce Jenner, as found in Mindset, pp 91.
What happens when you do not focus
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.”
- Unknown
The Power of Action
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The Power of self-discipline
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Lee Iacocca on making good use of time
“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”
- Lee Iacocca
The Power of 10 minutes
You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time . Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
- Ingvar Kamprad
on self-discipline
The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
~Martin H. Fischer