Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. read more

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't read more

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he read more

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.