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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph.

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000)

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators (2004)

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009)

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007)

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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