Les dejo un listado de claves para el éxito escritas por B.C. Forbes (fundador de la revista Forbes) en 1917:
- Your success depends on you.
- Your happiness depends on you.
- You have to steer your own course.
- You have to shape your own fortune.
- You have to educate yourself.
- You have to do your own thinking.
- You have to live with your own conscience.
- Your mind is yours and can be used only by you.
- You come into this world alone.
- You go to the grave alone.
- You are alone with your inner thoughts during the journey between.
- You make your own decisions.
- You must abide by the consequences of your acts
- You alone can regulate your habits and make or unmake your health.
- You alone can assimilate things mental and things material.
- You have to do your own assimilation all through life.
- You have be taught by a teacher, but you have to imbibe the knowledge. He cannot transfuse it into your brain.
- You alone can control your mind cells and your brain cells.
- You may have spread before you the wisdom of the ages, but unless you assimilate it you derive no benefit from it; no one can force it into your cranium.
- You alone can move your own legs.
- You alone can move your own arms.
- You alone can utilize your own hands.
- You alone can control your own muscles.
- You must stand on your feet, physically and metaphorically.
- You must take your own steps.
- Your parents cannot enter into your skin, take control of your mental and physical machinery, and make something of you.
- You cannot fight your son’s battles; that he must do for himself.
- You have to be captain of your own destiny.
- You have to see through your own eyes.
- You have to use your own ears.
- You have to master your own faculties.
- You have to solve your own problems.
- You have to form your own ideals.
- You have to create your own ideas.
- You must choose your own speech.
- You must govern your own tongue.
- Your real life is your thoughts.
- Your thoughts are your own making.
- Your character is your own handiwork.
- You alone can select the materials that go into it.
- You alone can reject what is not fit to go into it.
- You are the creator of your own personality.
- You can be disgraced by no man’s hand but your own.
- You can be elevated and sustained by no man but yourself.
- You have to write your own record.
- You have to build your own monument – or dig your own pit.
Which are you doing?
