The two great commandments of personal finance are to increase your income and decrease your expenses. Frugality is the fundamental principle behind the second. There are innumerable specific tips, hacks, and bargains - and more being created every day. You could numb your mind trying to fill it with each tidbit, but there is [...]

We’ve all been asked to make a presentation for a group at one time or another. The ability to give a speech or make a presentation is one of the most useful skill a person can have. So if you’d like to improve your public speaking, consider this thought.
Earl Nightingale said the “The most important [...]

Ben Franklin is one of the most amazing men that has ever lived. He was wildly successful as an author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat.
The idea of having a “mastermind” or “brain trust” is not new. Virtually all successful people have had one in some form or another. So what [...]

Let’s start off by listing some famous quotes on thinking.
A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
Max R. Hickerson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Rarely [...]

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he’d learned in seven years.”
The above quote is generally attributed to Mark Twain, because it sounds like something he would [...]

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

-Orison Swett Marden
There is a world of strength in taking full responsibility for the direction of your life.
It is true that life is [...]

In How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie writes, “If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.”He also explains that by a “feeling of importance” he means what gives you the most satisfaction.
Here are just a couple of thoughts to consider:
Strange is our situation [...]

Here’s something I came across while reading the other day. It sums up a great many things that I believe.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who [...]

Earl nightingale once joked, “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” Its almost funny how many people who have neither the drive nor patience to make themselves successful blame their failures on “bad luck.”
It has been said many times that luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Consistently successful people haven’t [...]

What makes a person successful in this modern world? I believe that techniques may have changed, but the attributes of successful people have ever been the same. As such, there is still much to learn from folks who were born over a hundred years ago.
William Maxwell “Max” Aitken was born the son of a Presbyterian [...]