Darren Hardy Quotes

There’s only one certainty in business: You can’t succeed if you quit.

Give ten companies the same products, and there will always be a number one and a number ten. Because it’s not about the products. It’s about the people behind them.

It’s not until situations are difficult, when problems come up and temptation is great, that you get to prove your worthiness for progress. As Jim Rohn would say, “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” When you hit the wall in your disciplines, routines, rhythms, and consistency, realize that’s when you are separating yourself from your old self, scaling that wall, and finding your new powerful, triumphant, and victorious self.

The most challenging aspect of the Compound Effect is that we have to keep working away for a while, consistently and efficiently, before we can begin to see the payoff.

You have to
dream, and you have to have some imagination to say, ‘Here’s a big goal, now let’s go conquer it.’

Start tracking at least one behavior

Isn’t it comforting to know you only need to take a series of tiny steps, consistently, over time, to radically improve your life?

People don’t resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.

What makes work fun is doing meaningful work.

Become aware of and make choices that support the expansion of your life.

Creating new habits will take time. Be patient with yourself. If you fall off the wagon, brush yourself off (not beat yourself up!), and get back on. No problem. We all stumble. Just go again and try another strategy; reinforce your commitment and consistency. When you press on, you will receive huge payoffs.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

You cannot manage or improve something until you measure

All of the hows will be meaningless until your whys are powerful enough. Until you’ve set your desire and motivation in place, you’ll abandon any new path you seek to better your life. If your why-power — your desire — isn’t great enough, if the fortitude of your commitment isn’t powerful enough, you’ll end up like every other person who makes a New Year’s resolution and gives up too quickly and reverts to sleepwalking through poor choices. Let me give you an analogy to help bring it home: If I were to put a ten-inch-wide, thirty-foot-long plank on the ground and say, “If you walk the length of the plank, I’ll give you twenty dollars,” would you do it? Of course, it’s an easy twenty bucks. But what if I took that same plank and made a roof-top “bridge

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.