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8. Anybody who is afraid to look bad is a loser. He is the same person you can beat every time. CNN founder Ted Turner says: If you never quit, you‘re never beaten. Quitters have never won. Winning has nothing to do with how you look, it has everything to do with your tenacity and resolve to win. The question is not: How do I look? The question is: How am I going to solve this. Somebody says: People are strange: they want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention. Winners know how to set their priorities right.


9. Most trouble is produced by those who don't produce anything else. They complain, criticize and suck up the life, and energy of other people. Be positive and be productive. This is the path to joy and happiness. A wise person says: "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra!" Do your best work today and for the rest of this week. Do not be a painter, be an artist. Always give more than what you are paid for. This is the path to success. Facing difficulties? Two ways to meet them. Change the difficulty or change yourself. Life difficulties are intended to make us better, not bitter. And don't melt like butter.

10. People who are proud and self-centered are like arithmetic; they add trouble, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. Humility is always the better choice. You can get ideas everywhere. Paul McCartney says: "I used to drive out to John‘s house. He lived out in the country, and I lived in London. I remember asking the chauffeur once if he was having a good week. He said, I'm very busy at the moment. I've been working eight days a week.' And I thought, 'Eight days a week! Now there's a title.' “To have a great idea you need to have lots of ideas.

11. What you acquire by reaching your destination isn‘t as important as what you become by reaching your destination. There are many who have reached their goals but in the process has destroyed their character. This is not success. This is a great loss! We need to work on our character every day of our lives. I must do something will always solve more problems than something must be done. Use your initiative do not wait to be told what to do. Make things happen. Go and do it.

12. There are 3 questions we would not want to ask one day: What happened? How did I get here? What was I thinking? Life is a summary of the choices we make from day to day. Make sure you make the right choices every day. Mistakes are inevitable but they open up opportunities. Those who stay still do not make mistakes but they don‘t win either! So keep moving.

13. The mark of an intelligent person is his ability to simplify the complicated and the mark of stupidity is the one who complicates the simple. Life is simple. Love God love others. Bob Dylan says: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. Do you love what you do or do you only do what you love? Success is not only about doing what you love but learning to love what you do.

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