The Shortest But Probably Most Important Blog Post

Posted on November 6, 2009 By Bedros

lion-heartThis may be the shortest post on this blog yet.

But for me, it’s probably one of the most important because I
get to learn a little bit about you, and take away something valuable I
can use in my life.

I have two questions for you.

1. What’s your favorite quote of all time?

2. What’s your favorite business, self-help, or motivational book of all time?

For me, my favorite quote is: Circumstance does not change responsibility

And my favorite book is: Get Everything You Can Out Of All You’ve Got, by Jay Abraham

How about you? What’s you’ve favorite quote and book of all time?

You know… the ones that have had the most influence on you, your character, business, or life philosophy.

Let me know below in the comment section.

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November 6, 2009

Adam Toohey @ 4:05 am

Bedros,

Man that Turkish proverb comes bloody close… hadn;t heard that one before…

Always liked “Be the change you want to see in the world” Ghandi and as for book… The Go Giver which I read recently would be up there.. (tough to go with 1) you end up reading so many.. but that certainly had impact.. man’s search for meaning also a classic

Cheers

AT

Adam Toohey @ 4:18 am

here’s another gooden…

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
- Albert Einstein

Love it!

Luka Hocevar @ 4:40 am

Favorite quote:
‘You can’t choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it’

Too hard to pick a book but I will write down two that really influenced me:

‘How To Win Friends and Influence People’

‘The Go-Giver’

Pete Tansley @ 5:07 am

G’day Bedros,

The first development books I ever picked up were “How to Win Friends” and “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Law of Success” by Brian Tracy. Both of these had a MASSIVE, immediate impact on me and helped turn my life around.

My fav quote is also from BT, “For everything you want in life, there is a price you must pay, in full and in advance. Decide what you really want and then determine the price you’ll have to pay to achieve it. Remember, to achieve something you’ve never achieved before — you must do something you have never done before”

Cheers Pete

James Cipriani @ 5:07 am

I try to answer questions like this by the first thing that comes to mind. If I think too long, I can come up with a hundred answers.

I have always been fond of “Life is a journey…not a destination.” I have to rank “It’s not how big the dog is in the fight, it’s about how big the fight is in the dog” up there.

Book-wise - “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey

victoria boer @ 5:16 am

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Michael Ward @ 5:20 am

My fave quote: Great things are achieved, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Fave book: not really a self help one but had a significant impact on me was ‘The Celestine Prophecy’ made me more aware to circumstance around me.

Bedros I think it’s almost time we made you an honorary Aussie.

You can start you videos from now on with …
‘Hey it’s Aussie Bedros’

Keep on truckin’!!

‘Aussie Mick’

Steve Payne @ 5:39 am

BK,
While it would be tough to narrow down either choice to just one, I will say my favorite quote is also by my favorite author, Dr. Edwin Louis Cole.

“Any male can father a child, but it takes a man to be a father.”

As for books, “Maximized Manhood” by Dr. Cole is awesome.

Amir Siddiqui @ 6:09 am

The new up and coming book called Genius of the Beast by my friend Howard Bloom. I was fortunate to read a pre-published version. Bedros this book will change everything. Yes. As silly as that statement sounds - absolutely true.

My favorite quote, “”Evolution keeps bumping upward to new levels of creativity and surprise. We’re her latest gizmos, her latest toys. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to throw ourselves with all our might and mane into what the universe will do with us or without us-creating new forms, new flows, new ways of being, new ways of seeing.” — Howard Bloom

Jason Newby @ 6:19 am

Hey Bedros

A great quote I heard recently was
“The Purpose of life is to discover your gift , the meaning of life is to give your gift away ” by Dan Zadra

I am in no way affilited with this guy ,but have just read Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It” , and it is an awesome handbook on building personal brand & using social media to do so , there wouldnt be one follower of this blog who couldnt benefit from the gold in his pages .

All time faves on the book front (business/motivational ) go to
“Think & Grow Rich”
“How to meet friends and influence people”

georgette pann @ 6:20 am

Anything by Seth Godin…love him and All his works

Randy Woody @ 7:00 am

“Good is not enough when excellence is available.”

the Bible

Murph @ 7:07 am

“Some men may be bigger, stronger or smarter than others…but no man has a corner on dreams, desire or ambition.”
And “The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino

Troy Blankenship @ 7:26 am

Hey Bedros,

The quote that’s always stuck by my side throughout the years has been,

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take”

As for my favorite book, there are so many to name but one of the best is Brian Tracy’s “The Power of Focus”

My favorite quote: It’s a done deal!

My favorite motivation book of all time: The bible

Becky Fox @ 7:43 am

Quote: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Book: Wow there are a few that have really made a huge impact on my life. One I’m still in the process of reading is The Answer by John Assaraf. However, How to Win Friends and Influence by Dale Carnegie was very influential as well.

Chris @ 8:06 am

Quote: “I’m not young enough to know everything”

Book: 1. The way of the peaceful warrior
2. Tao Te Ching

Martone Fuller @ 8:08 am

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission”. That is my favorite quote. I heard it from a friend, I have to ask where that came from

Cabel @ 8:11 am

“Do not overestimate your competition, you are better than you think” - Tim Ferris

And of all time…

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are probably right.” - Henry Ford

Book, most impact for me was still the 7 Habits back in the college days, hard to say which in recent years has had the biggest impact on our business, there has been so many.

But enjoyed the most I’d say:
- 4 Hour Work Week
- Ruthless Management of People and Profits

and now

- Made to Stick

Mark @ 8:25 am

“You don’t live to work, you work to live”

or

“If you follow the heard your going to step in a lot of Sh*t”

or

“Pain is only weakness leaving the body”

(I know you said one, but I had trouble just limiting it to 3)

As for the book, ‘The Monk who Sold his Ferrari’ has to be up there. I have a couple of other contenders, but I’ll stick with that one for now.

Nick Garcia @ 8:26 am

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”
-Wayne Dyer ( Not sure of original coiner)

“Feel the fear and do it anyway” by Susan Jeffers probably because I read it recently. This of course will always be second to “How to win friends and influence people” By Dale Carnegie.

Thanks Bedros you have contributed to my changing the way I look at things!

Chad Northcutt @ 8:36 am

Hey Bedros,

My favorite quote is “If not me who? If not now when?”

As far as my favorite book “Dont Worry Make Money”

dan ritchie @ 8:45 am

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot

Me, Myself and Bob by Phil Vischer
Best book I have read in years, tells the life story of Phil Vischer the man who created Veggie Tales, dreamed to take on Disney and ended bankrupt.

Donna Susor @ 8:50 am

My favoirte quote is “If you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep
getting what you are getting.” So, if you want to make a change, you must
do something different. My favorite book is the Slight Edge.

Edward SAmuelian @ 9:14 am

Favorite quote: Winners Never quit, quitters never win

Favortie Book: The Bible

Big J @ 9:26 am

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”

Book would be, As a man thinkith. James Allen

AlbeRRRto @ 10:07 am

Right now and for the year 2010 my new quote is

“GET RICH OR DIE TRYING” I know it may sound a bit money

focused. But its not about the money.

Its about raising the bar for myself and about using it (money) as a vehicle to do other charatible things like giving it all away eventually and spending some of it with family and friends. Because you cant take it with you.

As for the book: I have to say that its still Rich Dad/Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki because of the impact it had on me which made me understand why i was feeling the way i was and how i could do something about it.

Franco Crincoli @ 10:17 am

“Man’s greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

as for a book I’d have to say “The Art of Seduction”

Rob @ 10:32 am

“We are either watching things happen or making things happen”.
Author unknown

Luke Wold @ 10:34 am

1. “There’s only one reason to have a high-maintenance person around you. And profit isn’t one of them.”

2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Becca @ 10:36 am

There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now. ~Anonymous

Rob @ 11:02 am

Favorite book is The Ride of a Lifetime by Paul Teutuls.

Kendall Kruse @ 11:18 am

BK,

“If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

Book-”Knock em Dead”

Thanks for everything!!!

-Kendall

Tim Peterson @ 11:29 am

“You get out things what you put into them”

Geoffrey Gittomer “The Sales Bible”

saman Bakhtiar @ 11:31 am

Hey BK,

My favorite quote is by Henry Ford:

“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”

Favorite book is E Myth by Michael Gerber

Shannon Hamilton @ 11:36 am

QUOTE “If you are not the LEAD dog, the view never changes”

Book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

Miqueas Abdo @ 12:24 pm

Great people talk about ideas, Average people talk about things, and Small people talk about other people ;)

Sean Mc @ 12:35 pm

“Comfort is an illusion. A false security bred from familiar things and familiar ways. It narrows the mind. Weakens the body. And robs the soul of spirit and determination. Comfort is neither welcome nor tolerated here.”

OR

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but is doing what you have to, in spite of the fear.”

Johnny Leonard @ 1:40 pm

Quote:

The definition of insanity is: Doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.

Book:

I have read and listened to soooo many….But the one that I remember the most of it call YOU’RE BROKE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE by Larry Winget

Mihai @ 2:15 pm

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” -Juan Ramon Jimenez

The War Of Art, by Steven Pressfield
- it was tough to choose just one; all my favorite authors are at http://mihaib.com/authors

Adam Toohey @ 2:18 pm

Hey B,

Just picked up How To Win Friends and Influence People again… has been so long since I read it I forget if I have read it all or not.. lol.. I wasn’t reading much the past few days so i’ll credit this post for given me a kick up the clacker!

AT

Belton Lubas @ 2:52 pm

Book: Og Mandino “The Greatest Salesman in the World”

Quote: “Don’t do it…no really don’t…you MIGHT LEARN something” - Belton Lubas

Bobby Zuniga @ 3:00 pm

“Failure is only temporary, but quiting, that is forever.”
Tom Cortez

Favorite Book - The Road Less Traveled

mike @ 3:02 pm

Trying isn’t enough. Its an exscuse. Either your doing something or your not.

Casey Pfeifer @ 3:44 pm

My favorite quote is also from my favorite personal development book:

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, by Robin Sharma.

Loved reading everybody’s posts. I’ve got a lot of reading to do!

Best,

- Casey

John Thompson @ 3:50 pm

Most inspirational book: Bible.

Favorite quote: When it comes to your business- Work like it depends on you, pray like it depends on God.

Dee @ 3:57 pm

QUOTE: “It’s not who we are that holds us back, it’s who we think we’re not.” - Michael Nolan

BOOK: “Think and Grow Rich ” and “Reposition Yourself” & now reading “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

Couldn’t just come up with 1 book.

:)
Deeyarah

Adam Toohey @ 4:14 pm

Hey Belton… I gotta get me that book dude..

How dare I forget this one…

Do or Do Not. There is No Try - Yoda :)

Sara Hutniak @ 6:02 pm

Hey Bedros,

More than a quote, I read for inspiration the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Here’s the first bit:
“If you can keep your head, when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
And make allowance for their doubting, too.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about. Don’t deal in lies.
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
Yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise….”

Favorite book (so far): Who Moved My Cheese

cat @ 6:16 pm

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sung, except those that sung best. (Henry van Dyke).

I love this as we all know our weaknesses. We all know someone better than us! We also know what we do best.
Perfect.

Books - Bio-Typing. Johnny Seitz. I bought this by mistake but it is utterly fascinating - a study of human body language/posture by a man who has Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism) He is ALSO a PT, choreographer, mime artist, ballet dancer, and life coach. He is instinctively, and intuitively tuned in to knowing what anyone is about simply by looking at how they move. It feels very pertinent to what I do.

Margarite @ 6:24 pm

Wow ~ there are so many, for time’s sake I’ll stick to the following:

quotes:
One I live by is, I’m only a breath in to life ~ got to use it well.

Another quote by Carlos Castaneda, often used by Wayne Dyer is, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”

Books/CD’s:
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
the Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
The Four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Second Half of Life by Angeles Arrien
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
Just about everything by and with Anthony Robbins, he rocks !

Sorry, it’s really hard to stick to one and I can come up with so many but I’ll spare you :) LOL

josh chewning @ 6:25 pm

I have to say my favorite book is:
Playing to Win. By: Larry Wilson

And my favorite quote is:
People Who succeed will always do what failures won’t.

Live with passion!
J.c.

david mauntz @ 7:06 pm

“the best way to convince a man to an idea is to make him think the idea is his own.”

Frank Betger
How I raised myself from failure to success in sales.

quote: If you choose not to decide,
you still have made a choice.
- Rush

book: the Bible
- God

John David Mann @ 8:16 pm

Hey, I’m honored that TWO of you cited my and Bob Burg’s little book, The Go-Giver. What amazing company to keep! (Covey, Godin, Sharma, Carnegie, et al., and of course the Bible!)

Also gratifying to see The Answer (thanks, Becky!) and The Slight Edge (and to you too, Donna!), since I was involved in writing both books as well.

What a great group you have here! Great quotes, great books.

I think my favorite quote may be the first quote of all: “Let there be light!” (Although I’m told by a biblical scholar friend that a more accurate translation from the original Hebrew would be something like this: “Light — BE!” Now THAT’s a great quote: useful in virtually any situation.)

— JDM

Irene Diamond @ 9:27 pm

Favorite Quote:
“You only live once, but if you live it right- once is enough!”

Favorite Books- too many to name, but I agree with you- anything from Jay Abraham is worth every penny and his free stuff is invaluable too.
(This is my link to Jay’s latest FREE program: http://budurl.com/1029 )

Someone once said- if you’re a fitness trainer and you want to be successful, you should have the same number of biz books as you do fitness training books!… good advice!
~ID

Greg O'Gallagher @ 11:22 pm

quote: Make No Small Plans (my fathers credo)

book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Josh Henri @ 11:57 pm

hey bedros, favorite quote, “You can’t teach heart”
I agree with big willie and edward the most inpiring words I have ever read have come from the bible. Fav story David and Goliath, (I think cuz Im short)

November 7, 2009

Leo @ 1:22 am

Id have to say The 4 hour work week really helps put things in focus.

Quote- “”If you’re interested, you’ll do what’s convenient; if you’re committed,”, [John Assaraf and Murray Smith, The Answer]

Leo

Simon Lovell @ 4:05 am

I think Richard Branson’s Business Stripped Bare was a great read as well a Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway is a classsic.

But by far, by a long shot, I managed to get hold of this 1TB hard drive containing 10 years worth of collected DVD seminars and audios from Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Steven Covey, Bob Proctor, Bill Gates and hundreds of others. It’s mind blowing for both business and personal development. I’ve got through about 5% of the material and it keeps me on the right track. Mail me if you want a list of the material…. [email protected]

Jimmy @ 5:05 am

“To be a champion, train like a champion”

Applies to all facets of life, no matter what you do or think of doing. Do it right, reach for the top and let nothing hold you back. Don’t know where I originally heard it or if it’s just a modification of something else, but it works.

Tricia @ 10:21 am

“Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problems how big God is.”

- not sure who said it first, heard it from a pastor at my old church.

“The Purpose-Driven Life” by Rick Warren
and “Thrive, Don’t Simply Survive” by Karol Ladd
also “Jesus, CEO” by Laurie Beth Jones

Callie Durbrow @ 12:52 pm

Favorite quote:
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”

Favorite books:
The E-Myth
4 Hour Work Week
Crush It

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

Sherlock Holmes. Who the hell wrote that? Arthur Conan Doyle, I think…I just hope the upcoming movie doesn’t ruin the book…

Jana Holland @ 2:51 pm

Hey, B.
“Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.
-J. B. Gough

Book - “10 Dumbest Mistakes that Smart People Make.”

Currently reading “Influence” by Cialdini.

Thanks for this list. Good stuff here!

Jana Holland
SWAT Fitness
http://www.swatfitness.com

Ian Graham @ 3:53 pm

Sculpt Your WHOLE Life, Not Just Your BODY

By me :-)

November 8, 2009

Justin blum @ 10:07 am

Quote… Each days a gift and not a given right

book… Think and grow rich, nspolean hill..(what a mind setting book)

Jb

Moe Sims @ 4:28 pm

Book: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goldman

Quote: “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” Gerry Spence

Brien Shamp @ 5:51 pm

“It’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

So What Does That Mean…It means that if you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.”
T. Harv Eker
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Brien

http://www.optimalfitnesslifestyle.com

Steve Bertges @ 10:01 pm

Quote: “never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never” Winston Churchill

Favorite Book: Napoleon Hill “Think and Grow Rich”

Tyron @ 10:43 pm

Favourite quote: Mark 4:26-29 as it sums up life and how the kingdom of God works and that by putting these principles to work you’ll prosper and have good success in life.

“26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, 27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. 28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Favourite book: The Bible

November 9, 2009

Rob @ 4:39 pm

Quote: “Whatever the mind can concieve and believe… it can achieve” … something along them lines.

Book: ‘How to win friends and influence people’ ‘How to be brilliant’ comes a close second.

Kick ass

-Rob

Rob Simonelli @ 10:17 pm

Bedros,

My favorite quote, “In relationships there are never victims, only volunteers.”

My mother

Scott Williams @ 11:05 pm

Quote - ‘All that we are is a result of what we have thought’ - Buddha

Book - The E Myth - Michael Gerber

November 10, 2009

Chris Lutz @ 4:44 pm

Quote: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, but what we do know that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

Favorite Book: Automatic Millionaire by David Bach - Putting your retirement on auto pilot with the same principles as putting your client’s payments on autopilot with EFT.

Chris Lutz-Master Trainer
http://www.spartatraining.com

November 11, 2009

jen @ 9:51 pm

I :)
‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves – who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of god that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.’

Book: The Magic of Thinking Big
Think and Grow Rich

November 20, 2009

Joel @ 9:29 am

Freedom comes from the mind.

January 1, 2010

Billy Reuter @ 9:20 pm

One of my favorites from the late Jim Rohn:

“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of DELUSION!”

This is on my white board in my bedroom and I read it EVERY MORNING in bed.

Joseph Anthony @ 10:10 pm

Be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Ghandi

Kim Martin @ 10:23 pm

I’m a fan of the author Ayn Rand if you have not yet read “Atlas Shrugged” the its a book that’s worth putting on your list of great books to read this year..here’s my favorite quote from that book.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

We all have to achieve goals at a certain point of our life business or personal life and why not achieve them the way a true warrior would!

My favorite quote comes from some seminars I once took:
“A warrior does not go to the finish line, a warrior goes through the finish line!” (T.Harv Heker).

Favorite motivational book: “Finish Strong”.

Nolan J Fisher @ 10:47 pm

hey b,
you keep delivering the goods mate. 2010 is going to be huge, thanks to all ur advice, programs n top blog posts..
My fav quote “whether u think u can, or u think u can’t, u r right!” - Henry Ford
my top books, 4 hour work week, think n grow rich, the e myth, rich dad poor dad.

Have a top 2010 dude. All the best

Nolan from oz.

John Verd @ 11:02 pm

Man, what inspiration! And I see that my reading list has just gotten longer.

I have 2 favorite quotes, if I may…

“Whether you think you can do a thing or you think you can’t, you’re probably right.” –Henry Ford

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” –Gil Bailie

And favorite books:

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Getting Things Done

Teri Nakamura @ 11:58 pm

“Live to share.”

I got this from a Chinese fortune cookie. So much for the fortune, but I like the directive!

Happy New Year, Bedros! I love this post!

January 2, 2010

Tom Bold @ 1:32 am

“Your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” Emerson

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

Happy New Year Bedros and thanks everyone for sharing your great quotes : )

Phyllis @ 3:24 am

Hi Bedros

I like “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

My favorite books are “One Day my Soul Just Opened Up: by Iyalana Van Zant and “The Power of Now” by Ekhardt Tolle

Happy New Year and thanks for sharing the wealth.

Daryl Devonish @ 4:38 am

Hey guys…

favourite quotes:
1) “nothing changes IF nothing changes…”
2)”a setback is a setup for a comeback”

have to agree with jason newby…. just finished “crush it” and got a lot out of it!

Kat Millar @ 6:32 am

I love reading everyone’s favourite quotes and books!

My favourite quote is ‘Good is the worst enemy of great’

Books - I love anything by Jim Rohn, especially 7 wealth strategies.
Also love Think and Grow Rich!

Lewis - Elite @ 6:58 am

So many great quotes but my favorite has to be

“Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling, aim for the ceiling and your feet wont leave the ground” Bill Shankley

Book

Feel the fear and do it anyway by susan jeffers - it’s a belter!

HP @ 7:08 am

Hey Bedros,

Quote: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo Davinci
Favorite Book: E Myth and Richest Man in Babylon.

Happy New Year
HP

Gail Cort @ 7:55 am

Wow…I can see I need to read some books! Some really great quotes as well.

“To dream anything that you want to dream - that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything you want to do - that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits - that is the courage to succeed.” - anon

The book I like is not about making money and spiritual per se, it is “The Book of Virtues” by William Bennett. Full of short stories that you can read quickly and some that you can share with the youngsters in your life!

victoria boer @ 9:59 am

allright happy new year man. my favourites quotes is do unto others as you want others unto you. and the book from steven covey, seven habit of highly effective people , it has really transformed my life

Mary Glover @ 10:49 am

Quote: Success does not depend upon the brillance of your plan, but upon the consistency of your actions!!

Rob @ 10:53 am

Favorite quote by far is: You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They’re contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf

Favorite book is Take he risk by Benjamin Carson

julio @ 11:01 am

whenever i look around i always learn one thing and that is: always be yourself,express yourself,have fath in yourself.don’t go out and look for a seccessful peronality and duplicate them. BRUCE LEE

faverite book: the master key to riches.

Lindsay Vastola @ 11:37 am

“Control your destiny”

New favorite book - “The Purple Cow”

Bring it on 2010!

ken karnack @ 11:47 am

Ma who stand on toilet is high on pot1 that is my favorite quote of all time… haha

Mike Gelfgot @ 12:51 pm

Hey Bedros,

Favorite quote: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Favorite Book: Live with Passion - Anthony Robbins

John Thompson @ 1:14 pm

The book that changed it all:

The Art Of Selling Fitness. By my man, Bedros Keuilian.

Sandi @ 2:26 pm

The harder I work the luckier I get!

Louise Petkov @ 2:46 pm

“Remember this; when you think you have exhausted all options — you haven’t.” Unknown

The Four Agreements & Escape From Fear- don Miguel Ruiz, MD

Thanks Bedros, for all the inspiration in 2009 and for creating a fitness community where we can help one another to achieve our goals by sharing ideas, motivation, and experiences that better enable us to help our clients achieve their goals. Best wishes to all for prosperous 2010.

Andy Whitson @ 6:19 pm

“If you always do what you have always done. You will always get what you have always got” ~ unkBook

~Think And Grow Rich

will @ 6:37 pm

Fav quote: “Ability is what you’re capable of doing, motivation determines what you do, attitude determines how well you do it”…

Fav book: The Secret

Max Marcoux @ 7:32 pm

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the live you’ve imagined.” Thoreau

Books: The book of Proverbs in the Bible and Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale

January 3, 2010

Rebecca Gold @ 10:38 am

Fav Quote “circumstance does not maketh the man it only reveals him to himself”

Book: As A Man Thinketh James Allen………Life Changing

Martin @ 10:44 am

Great post…I love all these great quotes.

Favorite Quote:

If you think you can or can’t, your are right. -Henry Ford

Favorite Book:

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” by Susan Jeffers

Lee Collins @ 10:45 am

My all-time favorite quote is “The power to choose always gives you the final say!”

Favorite book - “Way of the Superior Man” by David Deida

Taryn @ 11:14 am

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.” Dr. Wayne Dyer

Ken Sanford @ 4:25 pm

Hey Bedros,
My favorite quote comes from a favorite movie of mine, The Shawshank Redemption:
“Get busy livin’, or get busy dying.”

And favorite book, even though I wouldn’t exactly consider it a business book is “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell.

Chad Smith @ 4:31 pm

Some of my favorite quotes:

“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”
- Christ Jesus

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney

“Learn to be who you have to be to do what you have to do, to have what you want to have.”
-Robert Kyosaki

Fave books:
Holy Bible, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, “E-Mth Revisited”

Carolyn Hansen @ 6:34 pm

Here’s a couple of quotes I think are fitness and exercise related for you:

“The mountain in your mind is a mountain you can conquer”.

And:

“Habits are like cobwebs at first, cables at last”.

John Shumate @ 6:52 pm

Favorite Saying from Tom Petty’s Lyrics:

Well I won’t back down
No I won’t back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won’t back down
No I’ll stand my ground, won’t be turned around
And I’ll keep this world from draggin me down
gonna stand my ground
… and I won’t back down

Well I know what’s right, I got just one life
in a world that keeps on pushin me around
but I’ll stand my ground
…and I won’t back down

Favorite Book: No doubt it’s “Seven Habits”

Great stuff everyone, thanks!

John Bocobo @ 7:39 pm

Hmmm…One of my favorite quotes is this: “Your inner world creates your outer world.” From T. Harv Eker author of one of my favorite books Secret’s Of The Millionaire Mind.

Robin Lopez @ 9:09 pm

There’s too many great quotes to name only one, heres a couple.

Start a change reaction!

No fear, no regrets!

I’m afraid to make changes but more afraid not to.

AND a good book

The Science of Getting Rich- Wallace D. Wattles

January 5, 2010

Pam @ 6:09 am

The only place Success comes before Work is in the dictionary

Dan DeFigio @ 11:43 am

“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it… If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets like Michelangelo painted paintings, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper!’”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jon Ganzer @ 12:33 pm

Two come to mind:

1. “The words ‘can’t’ and ‘have to’ make up the bars of your mental prison”, and

2. “There’s no traffic on the extra mile”.

January 8, 2010

TC @ 2:22 am

Hey Bedros
My favourite quote is:
‘Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen’. Michael Jordan

My favourite book is “Think & Grow Rich”.

James Bond @ 12:29 pm

My favorite quote is “May the force be with you”

What’s your favorite business, self-help, or motivational book of all time?

“The Slight Edge” Jeff Olsen

January 15, 2010

Mari-Ann Drevvatne @ 5:22 pm

You either have what you want or all the reasons why you don’t…

How you do ANYTHING is how you do EVERYTHING…