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The individual who wants to reach the top in business must

Appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to

Break those habits that can break him … and hasten to adopt

Those practices that will become the habits that helps him

Achieve the success he desires.

- J. Paul Getty

The defining characteristics of pessimists are that they tend

To believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine

Everything they do, and are their own fault.

The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks

Of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way.

They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback,

That its causes are confined to this one case.

The optimists believe defeat is not their fault …

Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about.

Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad

Situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder.

- Martin Seligman

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world we find
Success being with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.

- Walter D. Wintle