A mere compliment has been the seed of some people’s downfall.
Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.
Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.
Some people are a degree of impatience away from wishing a year were only a few weeks long.
It takes wisdom to gain wealth without losing health.
Imagine how much more crazy money would drive us if we could each drive more than one car at the same time.
For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.
Most men each have a to-do list of women that they plan on executing if and when they get rich or famous.
Like fear, doubt greatly reduces the potency of our effort.
The environment that most influences our health and our chances of attaining wealth is the one between our ears.
There are millions of ways to make millions of dollars legally.
Every generation is undersupplied with people who publicize their failures but hide their successes, and oversupplied with those who do the opposite.
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to think well of yourself while you are envious.
The success of social media companies largely depends on our failure not to spend too much time on their platforms.
Impatience is even more unfortunate in the talented.
Some people plan on being disciplined as soon as they achieve something that cannot be achieved without discipline.
We ought to readily share our successes with those with whom we readily share our problems.
Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.
Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.
That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.
