Frequently, you’ll look at a business having fabulous results. And the question is how long can this continue? Well, there is only one way to answer that. And that’s to think about why the results are occurring now and then to figure out what could cause those results to stop occurring.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.
I shall assume that I am writing for readers who are full, or have in the past been full, of a proper spirit of ambition. A man’s first duty, a young man’s at any rate, is to be ambitious.
Learning occurs best when new information is incorporated gradually into the memory store rather than when it is jammed in all at once.