p.17 The five Cs to supercharge your pursuit with a worthy plan are five words: Clear, Concise, Compelling,
Committed, Consistent.
p.23. They understood how to focus on a mission, how to break it down into the building blocks of
action, and how to never give up.
p.37 resourcefulness is truly next to godliness.
The lesson that you can take what you've got - no matter how minuscule it may seem
to be - and use your innate powers of ingenuity, together with hard work and focus, and make something meaningful
of yourself and your life is fundamental to all pursuits.
p.39,40,41 So many times I heard [my mother] say, "Boy, I've done so much, with so little for so
long, that I can do anything with nothing." And I saw her do it, the natural resource of ingenuity became not only
my gold, but also a part of who I am - how I made it this far while continuing to grow and flourish... I saw her a living
proof of the premise that you can start with nothing and do anything... Start with what you have
in hand.
p.90 Moms was like most parents who value literacy and education as building blocks for success.
p.91 "The public library is the most dangerous place in the world."
The most dangerous place in the world? Why was that? "Because," she explained to me, "you
can go in there and learn how to do anything."
p.126 Struggle is in our genes. We are here on this earth to choose to journey from one
place to a better one... We either go forward in the struggle, or we give in to our fear.
p.130 you might want to consider the working definition [of success] that's helped me. Simply put, success
is the result you get when you apply what you've learned in productive, practical ways... I believe that success is
the result of tactical and strategic applications of learned knowledge toward objectives pursued with passion.
p.156 the ever-useful question you can put to yourself whenever you're contemplating change or a different
path of growth - Are you bold enough to go back to basics?
p.163 What milestone will let you know you're making progress? ... It's whatever lets you
sing "Hallelujah" and "Praise the Lord" your way.
p.164 if you're bold enough and resilient enough to go back to basics, you're probably ready to venture
out where you've never gone before.
p.165 Let me repeat myself, and this you can take to the bank: everybody's selling something.
That's the essence of this lesson. Supply and demand ain't rocket science. It has applications from the cradle to
the grave, and answers numerous questions about how to make your way in the marketplace... What you are selling could
be, and often is, something lofty, revolutionary, and unique - an idea, a vision, a dream, or a transformational, practical
solution for a most pressing issue.
p.167 The more you recognize what appeals to you as a buyer, the more you'll know what you've got to
offer as a seller - that is, what's in it for your customers... my R&D was to find out what the potential buyer was already
buying. By the dictates of supply and demand, I could increase likelihood of making a sale by following a simple adage
- Sell 'em what they're buying.
p.167 The question you want to ask is - who is already buying [what you want to sell, in this case,
oranges]? Once you answer that, you need to find out where the orange buyers are... you gotta go where they are.
You get up and go to where they're buying what you've got.
p.169 Because there was no model for me to duplicate or replicate, no map or path to follow, that gave me
only one option - to start whacking, to blaze my own trail and never look back.
p.175 The top attribute most named by employers is passion... Folks know when you've got it or not.
p.178 I'd venture to say that in many industrial accidents where human error has been involved,
someone or a group of people tried to take shortcuts.
