You can be better or even the best and still not be good.

Like fear, doubt greatly reduces the potency of our effort.

In business, the size of our success is partly attributable to the fear of failure that has prevented some people from being our competitors.

Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.

It helps to sometimes take a break by resting on your laurels.

Our weakness is our opponent’s strength.

Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.