. . . You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself. . . The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
Your sixth sense should be your first sense.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.