It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.