Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.
Earning a certificate or degree, or both, after high school opens the door to countless economic opportunities.
You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.