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“you look at the life histories of most successful people or organisations, who have 1) Succeeded, 2) sustained success and 3) maintained goodwill, they have all lived by this one principle: “I shall always give more than I get, to my family, organisation and my society.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“The greatest gift that humans have is the ability to think. Of all the creatures in the world, humans are physically the most ill-equipped. A human cannot fly like a bird, outrun a leopard, swim like an alligator, nor climb trees like a monkey. A human doesn’t have the eyes of an eagle, nor the claws and teeth of a wild cat. Physically, humans are helpless and defenseless; a tiny insect can kill them. But nature is reasonable and kind. Nature’s greatest gift to humankind is the ability to think. Humans can create their own environment, whereas animals have to adapt to their environment.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Intellectual education influences the head and values-based education influences the heart.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age sixty-seven, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew.” In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met and Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their necks, Socrates took the young man by surprise and pushed him under the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates kept him there. When the boy started turning blue, Socrates raised the boy’s head out of the water. The first thing the boy did was to take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were under water?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted air underwater, you will have it.” There is no other secret. This is called the burning desire.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“A person’s character is judged not only by the company they keep but also by the company they avoid.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“How is Life Full of Choices? When we eat too much, we make a choice to be overweight. When we drink too much, we make a choice to have a headache the next day. If we drink and drive, we choose to risk being killed or killing someone in an accident. When we ill-treat people, we choose to be ill-treated in return. When we don’t care about other people, we choose not to be cared for by them. When we light up a cigarette, we choose to invite cancer. Choices have consequences. The most important thing to understand is that we are all free to the point of making choices. but, after we make a choice, the choice controls the chooser. We have no more choices. What is success? Series of positive choices is called success and series of negative choices is called failure. We have an equal opportunity to be unequal. The choice is ours. Life can be compared to a pottery maker who shapes clay in any form he wants. Similarly we can mould our lives into any shape we want.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence success is a matter of choice and not chance.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Super achievers don’t waste time in unproductive thoughts, esoteric thoughts or catastrophic thoughts. They think constructively and they know that their level of thinking determines their success.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try. – Beverley Sills”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Ability will get you success; character will keep you successful.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent.
These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly.
There are two kinds of people in this world--takers and givers. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Givers have high self-esteem, a positive attitude, and they serve society. By serving society, I do not mean a run-of-the-mill pseudo leader-turned- politician who serves himself by pretending to serve others.
As human beings, we all have the need to receive and take. But a healthy personality with high self-esteem is one that not only has its need to take but also to give.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself “If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?” The answer is your purpose. Mission: A mission is an action that leads a person to a purpose through a philosophy.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“A CRASH COURSE FOR SUCCESS    • Play to win and not to lose.    • Learn from other people’s mistakes.    • Associate with people of high moral character.    • Give more than you get.    • Don’t look for something for nothing.    • Always think long term.    • Evaluate your strengths and build on them.    • Always keep the larger picture in mind when making a decision.    • Never compromise your integrity.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Winners don't do different things . . . they do things differently”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twenty-one; was defeated in a legislative race at age twenty-two; failed again in business at age twenty-four; had his sweetheart die when he was age twennty-six; had a nervous breakdown at age twenty-seven; lost a congressional race at age thirty-four; lost a senatorial race at age forty-five; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age forty-seven; lost a senatorial race at age forty-nine; and was elected president of the United States at age fifty-two. This man was Abraham Lincoln.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Winners don;t do different things, they do things differently.”
― Shiv khera, You Can Win

“Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself “If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?” The answer is your purpose.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Winner dont do different but they do differently”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“winners don't do different things , they do things differently”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try.”
― Beverley Sills, You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

“winners see the gain; losers see the pain.”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Winners dont do different things,they do things differently”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

“Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records”
― Shiv Khera, You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers