Las Claves del Éxito de B.C. Forbes

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?