A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.Chuck Feeney
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.Warren Buffett
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.Warren Buffett
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the most sure is with technicians.Georges Pompidou
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.Oscar Wilde
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Steve Jobs
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.Stephen R. Covey
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.Carl Sandburg
People don't decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.F. M. Alexander
All success is a lagging indicator… all the good stuff (and bad stuff) is downstream from choices made long before.Ray Dalio
Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term sacrifice, you’ll have the long-term benefit. 'Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.'Jerry West
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.F. Matthias Alexander