thoughts for success

Thoughts  for Success Your Daily Companion For Inspiration And Positive Thinking

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Contents Introduction Change Courage Dreams Entrepreneurship Failure Faith Ideas Innovation Leadership Management Marketing People Perseverance Planning Relationship Service Spiritual Strategy Success Vision Wealth

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Introduction

First of all, I would like to congratulate the readers of this inspirational booklet for taking the first step towards positive change.

challenges and obstacles, especially in achieving our dreams and goals. Imagine if we have a remedy for all the problems and get anything we want in life.

As much as we all fear change, change itself is inevitable. That is why I warn readers that the content could change their life. We all want to be successful, happy, fulfilled and have better things in life, yet we are afraid of change.

I believe there is a way to overcome all ‘negative’ things and the answer lies in the power of our minds. Nevertheless our mind is like a muscle. Just as you need to exercise to strengthen the muscle, you got to ‘exercise’ your minds through the power of thoughts.

Certainly with change comes the unknown and uncertainty. That is why so many people are afraid of it. But is it really that bad? More often than not, it is the golden opportunity to improve and achieve greater heights in life. As we move through life, we have to face all kinds of problems, difficulties,

Basically a thought consists of words and images that not only give meaning to our world but also create our real world. So if you want to change or improve your real world or circumstances, you got to start from your minds. And you got to feed your minds with positive thinking,

affirmations and imagination. So where do you get the ‘raw materials’ to strengthen your minds and resolve in achieving what you want? In answering to that question, this book is born as a way of programming our minds if you like in our quest for success and happiness. While it is important to take action, very often we give up in our journey towards our dreams, goals and successes. It takes a strong will and determination to be a success. So it is my hope that the readers will read and feed their minds with positive thinking of other people who have proven to be successful. By doing so, it is like modeling the successful programming in the minds of  these successful people and ‘copy’ it to

your own brain. It is like copying a file from one brain to another. In nutshell, if you think like successful people, you too would become a successful man or woman. It is simply because it works and millions of people have achieved greater heights in their life through the power of thoughts. All the best to you!

Yours truly William Leam C-Channels Sdn Bhd 

“Be the change  you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi 

Change You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight -  Jim Rohn , American speaker  and author. He is famous for  motivational audio programs  for Business and Life .

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.  - Anthony Robbins ,  American advisor to leaders

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.  - Siddharta Buddha Gautama

Change your thoughts, and you change your world

 - Anthony J. D’Angelo , Founder  of The Collegiate EmPowerment Company and creator of The Inspiration Book Series

 - Norman Vincent Peale ,  American writer

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

 - Brian Tracy , Motivational  Speaker and Business Author

 - Stephen R. Covey

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.  - Gail Sheehy

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of  thought - so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.  - Dalai Lama , Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan  Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.  - Jackie Chan ,  famous movie star and director

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.  - Marcia Wieder , American  motivational speaker and author.

“To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.” - Anonymous

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.  - Alvin Toffler ,  American author of Science-fiction

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.  - Plutarch , Ancient Greek  biographer and author

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  - George Bernard Shaw , 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient

Don’t manage - lead change before you have to.  - Jack Welch

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.  - Unknown

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“Courage is simply the  willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” - Dr. Robert Anthony   Self-help author 

Courage Courage conquers all things  - Ovid , Ancient Roman classical  poet and author of  Metamorphoses

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.  - Winston Churchil l, British orator  and prime minister during World War II 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always diffi culties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson , American  poet, lecturer and essayist

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?  - Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter

 - Raymond Lindquist

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.  - Aristotle , Ancient Greek  philosopher, scientist and  physician

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.  - David Viscott

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving diffi cult times and challenging adversity.  - Epicurus, Greek philosopher

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- Napoleon Bonaparte, French general,  politician and emperor 

 - John Quincy Adams , American 6th US president (1825-29)

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.  - François de la Rochefoucauld ,  French classical author

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear  - Mark Twain , American humorist,  writer and lecturer

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.  - Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  - Ambrose Redmoon

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.  - Thucydides , Ancient Greek  historians and author

Courage is always rewarded.  - Kenny Loggins

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“Laugh often, Dream big, Reach for the stars!” - Anonymous

Dream Build a dream and the dream will build you.  - Robert H Schuller

There is nothing like a dream to create the future....

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

 - Victor Hugo

 - Oprah Winfrey , American television personality,actress and  producer

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

 - Napolean Hill

 - Dale E. Turner

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of  your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.  - Ralph Lauren ,  American fashion designer

We live in the present, we dream of  the future and we learn eternal  - Denis Waitley , American  motivational speaker and author of  truths from the past.  self-help books

 - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Chinese Head of the Chinese Nationalist Government in  exile on Taiwan

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

 - Les Brown , American songwriter

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.  - Walt Disney , American pioneer of   animated cartoon films and creator  of Disneyland .

You’re in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows and has always known that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.  - Anthony Robbins

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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.  - Lao Tzu

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity  and are able to turn both to their advantage.” - Victor Kiam

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.  - Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that is exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.  - Anita Roddick , Founder of  BodyShop

“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”

 - Mary Kay Ash , founder of  Mary Kay Cosmetics

 - Ted Turner , broadcasting  entrepreneur

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is. It’s how we use it that makes things possible.

 - Walter Dill Scott

 - Henry Ford , Automobile  Entrepreneur

“Our success has really been based on  partnerships from the  very beginning.” - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.  - Steve Jobs , American  Entrepreneur and  Apple co-Founder

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”  - Richard Branson , founder of  Virgin Enterprises

Find a niche market opportunity, exploit it, then reap the benefits while at all times searching for your next niche to enter, move to make, and edge to employ.  - Ryan P. Allis , entrepreneur

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.  - Peter F Drucker

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

 - Michael Faraday , English  physicist who contributed greatly “The important thing is not being afraid to the understanding of  to take a chance. Remember, the greatest  electromagnetism

failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”  - Debbi Fields , founder of  Mrs. Fields Cookies

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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every  time we fail.” - Confucius.

Failure Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.  - Denis Waitley

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”  - Chinese Proverb

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.  - Charles F. Kettering , American  engineer, inventor of the electric  starter

One failure is worth seven and a half  successes  - Eli Khamarov

“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities”

What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don’t see is the 99 percent which are my failures.

 - Napolean Hill

 - Soichiro Honda

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

 - Roger Von Oech

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.  - Theodore Roosevelt , American  26th US president (1901-09)

 - Robert T. Kiyosaki  , author,  entrepreneur, investor

We never learn from our successes, we learn from our failures.  - John Naisbitt

“Failure will never overtake me if my  determination to succeed is strong enough.” - Og Mandino Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.  - Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.  - Eric Hoffer , American writer

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  - Thomas A Edison

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.”  - Walter Brunell

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.  - Swami Sivananda  Indian Yoga master, physician,  monk and founder of  The Divine Life Society 

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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.  - Michael Jordan , American NBA basketball player, widely  considered to be the greatest  player in the history of the game

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.  - Robert Browning

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions - the hero and the sidekick.  - Laurence Shames

“Faith will move mountains” - Proverb

Faith Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

 - Martin Luther King , Jr .,  American baptist minister  and civil-rights leader

 - Michael Korda

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.  - Muhammad Ali , American boxer  and activist

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive  - Chinese Proverbs

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.  - Voltaire , French philosopher and  writer

The only known cure for fear is faith  - Lena Kellogg Sadler

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.  - Bernhard Berenson

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.  - Oprah Winfrey

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.  - Bob Proctor

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.  - Norman Vincent Peale

“Miracles happen to those  who believe in them.” - Bernhard Berenson What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

 - William Hazlitt, British writer

 - David J. Schwartz

Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if  you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

 - Anthony Robbins

 - Anonymous

 - Chretien Malesherbes

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief  becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.  - Claude M. Bristol

Fear clogs; Faith liberates  - Elbert Hubbard ,American editor,  publisher and writer

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“Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.” - Edward de Bono, Maltese psychologist and writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking

Ideas Ideas control the world.  - James A. Garfield , American  president

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.  - Rosabeth Moss Kanter ,  American business speaker and  consultant

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.  - Everett Dirksen , American  senator

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.  - John Cage , American avant garde composer

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought may be worth a million dollars.

 - Alfred North Whitehead , British  mathematician and philosopher

 - Robert Collier , American  motivational author

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking If at first, the idea is not absurd, you in the head all the time. You only then there is no hope for it have to know what you want, then forget  - Albert Einstein it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there All achievements, all earned riches, all the time. have their beginning in an idea.  - Henry Ford , American  industrialist and entrepreneur.

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 - Napoleon Hill

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.  - Buddha

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.  - Thomas More , English humanist,  statesman and chancellor of   England

Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.  - Harvey S. Firestone , founder of  the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates  - Lou Dorfsman believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this Ideas must work through the brains and belief is totally wrong. The mind can only arms of good and brave men, or they are see what it is prepared to see. no better than dreams  - Edward de Bono

“Lack of money  is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.” - Anonymous

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson ,  American poet, lecturer  and essayist

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not  just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.  - Jack Welch

Think out of  the box, be innovative.

Innovation

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

 - Albert Einstein

 - Louis Ferdinand Celine ,  French writer and physician

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

 - Ted Levitt

 - Steve Jobs , American  Entrepreneur Apple co-Founder

Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.  - Michael Vance

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.  - Larry Ellison

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity  - Michael Porter

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.  - Frederick W. Smith

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“The heart and soul of  the company is creativity  and innovation.” - Robert Iger 

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.  - Harold R. McAlindon

 - Denis Waitley

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.  - Hyman G Rickover

 - Frank Tyger

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.  - Steve Jobs

 - Theodore Levitt

There are men so conservative they believe nothing should be done for the first time.  - Unknown

A dream with courage is innovation...A dream without courage is a delusion  - Unknown

Be a leader, develop your leadership skills.

Leadership Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don’t see themselves as leaders.

 - Peter F. Drucker , American  educator and writer

 - Stephen R. Covey

Leadership is influence.  - John C. Maxwell

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

 - John Kotter

 - Ralph Nade , American activist  and lawyer

A sense of humor is part of the art of  leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

 - Dwight David Eisenhowe ,  American 34th president (1953-61)

 - Bill Owens

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.  - Unknown

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people  - Indira Gandhi , Indian politician  and prime minister

“Leadership is action, not position.” - Donald H. McGannon

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.  - Bill Owens

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.  - Jim Rohn , American speaker  and author

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.  - Warren G. Bennis , Author of  the ‘ Becoming A Leader ’ 

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.  - Rosalynn Carter

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of  the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.  - Warren G. Bennis

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.  - Faye Wattleton

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of  self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.  - Mahatma Gandhi

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.  - Theodore Hesburgh , American Clergyman, University President

“Management works in the system; Leadership  works on the system.” - Stephen R. Covey 

Management Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.  - Peter F. Drucker

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.  - Harold S. Geneen , American  businessman, He was CEO of  ITT

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

 - Paul Hawken

 - Thomas J Peters

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

 - Lee Lacocca

 - Stephen R. Covey

Effective management always means asking the right question.  - Robert Heller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of  superior people.  - John D Rockefeller

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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.  - Peter F. Drucker

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn’t management itself  becomes a peripheral opponent to the team’s mission.

Management is effi ciency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

 - Pat Riley

 - Stephen Covey

The conventional definition of  management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them

 - Agha Hasan Abedi

 - Jack Welch

You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes hear good tidings, but you have to your time and it annoys the pig. scratch to get the bad news.  - Paul Dickson  - Thomas J. Watson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.  - George S. Patton

“No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.” - Bill Terry 

Marketing drives the sales up!

Marketing Technology can be acquired, at home and abroad. The real bottleneck lies with advertising and marketing…we know how to make, we can make large quantities cheaply, we must know how to sell. In manufacturing, we can score 70 to 90 marks…but in advertising and international marketing, we can only get between 5 and 30 marks. Imagine our value if we strengthened our advertising and marketing.  - Stan Shih Chen-jung , Founder of   Acer Group

Even though the lawyers hate it, making the brand name a generic is the ultimate weapon in the marketing wars.  - Jack Trout , Trout on Strategy 

There are three sources of revenue for your company: Adding new customers, getting existing customers buying more, getting existing customers buying more frequently.  - William Leam , Entrepreneur and  Author

Marketing is everything you do to make sure your customers find out about, and buy, your products and services.

Marketing is a company-wide philosophy calling upon everyone in the company to sense, serve, and satisfy our customers.  - Bob Serling , the Stratford  - Philip Kotler

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The aim of marketing is to know and Money coming in says I’ve made understand the customer so well the the right marketing decisions. product or service fits him and sells itself.  - Adam Osborne ,  - Peter F. Drucker , American  educator and writer

 American entrepreneur

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is  very powerful.” - Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com Globally, we are gravitating towards an ‘experience’ economy, where consumers expect and pay for more sophisticated brands that deliver memorable experiences. Dubbed as a new marketing frontier, experiential marketing is claiming considerable mind share and is lending new dimensions to brands, in an era where quality is no longer enough.  - Sarit Reouveni , Samsung SA’s  group marketing manager

A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless. Stephen King, WPP Group, London Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

You must have mindshare before you can have marketshare.

 - Bo Bennett

 - Christopher M. Knight

The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.

Advertising is salesmanship massproduced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can’t.  - Morris Hite , Adman: Morris Hite’s Methods for Winning the Ad Game ,  1988

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 - Sergio Zyman

Getting along with  people is the key to successful career and relationship.

People Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if  you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.  - Dale Carnegie

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.  - Mark Twain , American humorist,  writer and lecturer

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.  - Dean Rusk , American statesman

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.  - Albert Einstein

People don’t really care how much you know until they know how much you care.  - Mike McNight

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.  - George Bernard Shaw

People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives  - Thomas Mann , German  novelist and essayist

All people are half actors.  - Dana Andrews

Value people on their potential, not on their history.  - Bo Bennett

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“If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him  your friend.” - Abraham Lincoln,  American 16th US president (1861-65) If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.  - Albert Einstein

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.  - Mark McCormack - founder of  IMG.

In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.  - Rupert Murdoch

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“… our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company’s success.”  - Richard Branson

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.  - Epictetus , Greek philosopher

Always give people a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind  - Anonymous

“Through perseverance many   people win success out of   what seemed destined to be certain failure.” - Benjamin Disraeli  British prime minister and novelist.

Perseverance Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.  - Samuel Johnson

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.  - Charles H. Spurgeon , English  - Lao Tzu

 preacher of 19th century

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which diffi culties disappear and obstacles vanish.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

 - John Quincy Adams , American 6th US president (1825-29)

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.  - H. Ross Perot

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

 - Albert Einstein

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.  - B. C. Forbes

“Only actions  performed with  perseverance can ensure success.” - Yajur Veda Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.  - Flower A. Newhouse

Perseverance is a great element of  success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on persistence, not luck.  - Norman Lear

The most essential factor is persistence the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.  - James Whitcomb Riley

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.  - John D. Rockefeller , American  industrialist and philanthropist

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.  - Napoleon Hill , American author

You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.  - Lee Iacocca

A jug fills drop by drop.  - Buddha

Nobody plans to  fail but a lot of   people fail to plan.

Planning When planning for a year, plant corn. A good plan is like a road map: it shows When planning for a decade, plant trees. the final destination and usually the best When planning for life, train and educate way to get there. people.  - H. Stanley Judd  - Chinese Proverbs

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of  those which fail.

 - Fitzhugh Dodson

 - Napoleon Hill , American author

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

 - Alan Lakein

 - Earl Nightingale , US  motivational writer and author

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.

 - Napoleon Hill , American author

 - Donald Trump , American  entrepreneur

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An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.  - Zig Ziglar , American  motivational speaker and author

 - Basil S. Walsh

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.  - Thomas Alva Edison , Most  famous American inventor

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter’ carpenter’ss rule: Measure twice, cut once.  - Unknown

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it  - Napoleon Hill

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.  - Jim Rohn , American speaker and  author.

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results  - Dennis Wholey

“Failing to plan is  planning to fail.” - Alan Lakein

Basically life is about relationship  with other people.

Relationship The quality of your life is the quality of  your relationships.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

 - Anthony Robbins

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

 - Wayne Dyer , American  motivational speaker

 - Mother Teresa

Whenever you’re you’re in conflict confli ct with wi th someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.  - William James , American  philosopher and psychologist

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate di sparate experiences of self and social relationships.  - Carol Gilligan , American  psychologist, writer and researcher

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.  - Albert Camu s, French novelist  and playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature

A friend is a second self.  - Aristotle

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.  - Anthony J. D’Angelo , Founder  of The Collegiate EmPowerment Company and creator of  The Inspiration Book Series

“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” - Alexandria Penney  The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if  our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won’t be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.  - Stephen R. Covey

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace  - Franklin D. Roosevelt , American  32nd US president

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.  - Todd Ruthman

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.  - Anthony Robbins

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, “This is me. I’m not proud of  it -- in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it -- but this is who I am.”  - Bill Hybels

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“Make service your first  priority, not success and success will follow.” - Unknown

Service The thing that lies at the foundation of  positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.  - Lee Iacocca

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.  - Douglas Adams , British comic  writer

Service is what life is all about.  - Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.  - Marian Wright Edelman

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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.  - Jim Rohn , American speaker and  author

It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service  - Albert Einstein

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.  - Patricia Fripp

“Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.  - Albert Einstein

 - Henry Ford

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.  - Elbert Hubbard

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.  - Abraham Lincoln , American 16th US president

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for  - Napoleon Hill

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.  - Dorothy Height

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.  - W.E. Gladstone  ADS  16

 We are a spiritual being living in this body.

Spiritual You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.  - Teilhard de Chardin , French  geologist, priest, philosopher and  mystic

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.  - Deepak Chopra

Spirituality is a way of accepting the fact that there is a spiritual force in the universe larger than all of mankind.  - John Henrik Clarke

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,

restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of  compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  - Albert Einstein

Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is diffi cult to get and maintain peace of  mind.  - Dalai Lama

Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great men are they   who see that spiritual is stronger than material  force, that thoughts rule the world.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Life is difficult.This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is diffi cult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer diffi cult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is diffi cult no longer matters.

 - The Talmud

 - M.Scott Peck

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

 - Oprah Winfrey

 - Buddha

 - Woodrow T Wilson

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual  journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

 - Marianne Williamson

 - Julius Erving

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Think strategy 

Strategy  I don’t think we can tell the difference any more between a corporate strategy and a marketing strategy. That’s just vanished.  - Regis McKenn

In marketing I’ve seen only one strategy that can’t miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.  - John Romero

Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term: ideally, which matches its resources to its changing environment, and in particular its markets, customers or clients so as to meet stakeholder expectations.  - Johnson & Scholes

The key in all competition (war, business, house contractors, etc.) is to avoid or mitigate your competition’s strengths and exploit their weaknesses. The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army (company), more forces at the point of attack than the enemy.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

 - Napoleon Bonaparte

 - Sun Tzu

If you know what businesses you’re in, strategic planning is a piece of cake.  - Alan Michaels

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.  - Max Euwe

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There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

To boldly go where no one has gone before.  - Opening phrase of  Star Trek , the  famous Science Fiction Series

 - Heinrich von Pierer

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear mirror.

 - Charles de Gaulle

 - Anita Roddick

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

The way to achieve success is first to have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

 - Winston Churchill

There is always a better strategy than the one you have; you just haven`t thought  - Aristotle 384BC-322BC, Greek of it yet.  - Sir Brian Pitman , former CEO of  Lloyds TSB , Harvard Business Review , April 2003

 philosopher and scientist, student  of Plato and teacher of  Alexander the Great

“Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’ ” - Jef I. Richards

Success is in your hands

Success Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.  - George Sheehan , American  physician, author and running  enthusiast

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.  - Napoleon Hill

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.  - Dr Joyce Brothers

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.  - Brian Tracy

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.  - Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of   - Anthony Robbins winning.  - Denis Waitley

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” - Anthony Robbins

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.  - Claude M Bristol

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.  - R C Allen

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more selfconfident and more and more successful.  - Mark Victor Hansen

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.  - Russel H Conwell

Successful people are simply those with success habits.  - Brian Tracy

The vision will light up the path of your life

 Vision Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.  - Li Ka Shing

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.  - Vance Havner

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

 - Japanese proverb

 - Rosabeth Moss Kanter ,  American business speaker and  consultant

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

 - Jack Welch

 - Unknown

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

 - Anthony Robbins

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 - Woodrow T. Wilson

“The best vision is insight.” - Malcolm S. Forbes It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of  experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.  - Charles R. Swindoll

 - Les Brown

Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible!

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into  - Patrick Snow , author of Creating manifestation through holding to the  Your Own Destiny  vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and We are limited, not by our abilities, but discouragement. by our vision.  - Florence Scovel Shinn

 - Anonymous

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.  - Joel Barker

 - Robert Collier

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.  - Arthur Schopenhauer

Not a millionaire  yet? No problem, read this book and  you are on your road towards financial freedom.

 Wealth It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.  - Margaret Thatcher , British  politician and ex-prime minister.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affl uence and emotional security.

 - Andrew Young

 - Suze Orman

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

 - William Feather

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.  - Henry Ford

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.  - Alfred A. Montapert , American  motivational author

 - Edmund Burke

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.  - Sri Sathya Sai Baba , Indian  spiritual leader

“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.” - Robert Collier  Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.  - John Hoeven

It requires a great deal of boldness and a It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires  - Mahatma Gandhi ten times as much skill to keep it. We make a living by what we get, but we  - Ralph Waldo Emerson make a life by what we give. Your mindset is your asset.  - Winston Churchill  - Jose B. Cabajar

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.  - Socrates

 - English Proverb

May your charity increase as much as your wealth  - Proverb

Wealth is in the richness of the mind and heart, not the pocket.  - Anay Bathia

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