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“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”

“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.”