"If you improve by just 1 percent a day, in 70 days you’re twice as good."

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"The good news and the bad news is that it takes only 1 percent a day, because while that sounds eminently achievable, it also denies you the excuse of volume, magnitude, and overwhelm. The sad reason that most people cannot make their dreams come true has more to do with procrastination than inability; delay rather than obstacle; lassitude instead of immovable objects."

--Alan Weiss in Thrive! Stop Wishing Your Life Away (http://bit.ly/auP7PJ)

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success. "

-- Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (Founder and former CEO of IBM)

"We generally judge the difficulty of a proposed action by how much we are resisting it rather than by how much skill or technical expertise it will take. So many people see doing their tax return as very difficult, even though no real skill is involved."

--Mark Forster

"I spend most of my day writing. I write everything on our website. Communicating clearly is my top priority. Web writing is terrible, and corporate sites are the worst. You don't know what they do, who they are, or what they stand for. I spend a lot of time taking a sentence and reworking it until it's perfect. I love the editing process."

--Jason Fried, 37Signals.com

"I have a very simple philosophy on life. You shouldn’t steal from yourself. If you’re going to commit your life to an enterprise, wealth creation, the security and the financial well-being of your family… and if other people your staff, your team, your employees, your vendors are going to commit their lives to you, you owe it to yourself and to everyone else to get the highest and best results. You should never accept a fraction of the yield when with the same effort or less, the same people or fewer, the same time or less, the same capital or less, the same opportunity cost or less, can deliver so much more to you currently, and perpetually."

--Jay Abraham

"Confidence and competence is not the same thing. No one should go into their garden and chant, 'There are no weeds. There are no weeds. There are no weeds.' For people to be true leaders, they have to first see things as they are, not worse. Then see it better than it is, and then make it the way you see it."

--Anthony Robbins (as quoted in SUCCESS Magazine, January 2009)

"Competition doesn't breed innovation; it breeds conformity."

--Steve Miller (http://theadventure.com/)