I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’m chasing perfection.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Action expresses priorities.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.