Smile...

Smile, it increases your face value.
-Dolly Parton

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
-Lance Armstrong

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic...

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
-Thomas J. Peters

Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic.
-Dale Carnegie

You must take personal responsibility...

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
-Jim Rohn

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-E.E. Cummings

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-Dale Carnegie

Every tomorrow has two handles...

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
-Mark Twain

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
-Henry Beecher, Minister and Writer

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
-Dale Carnegie

Fear not...

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
-William Hazlitt

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
-Dante

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
-Dale Carnegie

All human actions have...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
-Aristotle

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
-Peter McWilliams, Author

When I let go...

Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
-Wilbert Sheer

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-Lao Tzu

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
-Dale Carnegie

If money is your hope...

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
-Stevie Wonder

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
-Henry Ford

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
-Dale Carnegie

The way to happiness...

The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
-Emily Dickinson

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
-Norman Vincent Peale

A man is the sum of his actions...

Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie Beyon Ray

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

What this power is I cannot say...

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Don't compromise yourself...

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
-Walt Disney

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-Janis Joplin

First ask yourself:
What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
-Dale Carnegie

Try not to become a man of success...

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
-Booker T. Washington

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts:
what we do,
how we look,
what we say, and
how we say it.
-Dale Carnegie

Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
- Albert Einstein

Take a chance!

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
-Aldous Huxley

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.
-Dale Carnegie

There is nothing permanent except change. (Observation made in 513 B.C.)
-Heraclitus of Greece

Great Results

Last night we finished session #5 of our Sales Program and it's great to see the wonderful results that we've seen so far. All the class members work in sales and have experience that varies from "just started" to "lots of years of experience".

One participant has gained four new clients in the last week using the techniques he's learned. Another has tripled his sales and had his best month ever in January. One gentleman got in to see a client that his company has been trying to meet with for over two years!

It's not surprising, because we consistently get these kind of results, but every time it happens it's great to see. In fact the feeling is so positive from what they've learned that everyone referred someone they think would benefit from the program.

Next week we have the big graduation and that'll be a lot of fun!

The successful man will profit...

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
-Dale Carnegie

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin

Flaming enthusiasm...

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
-Harvey Firestone

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

Friendship is always...

If you wish to be loved; love!
-Seneca

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-Kahlil Gibran

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu

Twenty years from now...

Above all be of single aim: have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
-James Allen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.
-Dale Carnegie