Dan Pena

“Once you learn to make money, it is not that hard... what's hard is to stay excited about it.”

“I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.”

“I know what it's like to have a house repossessed... I've been there.”

“Don't set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.”

“You have to have faith in people.”

“High-performance people have larger, more expanded comfort zones than most!”

“The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don't really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!”

“I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!”

“Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.”

“My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!”

“I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!”

“We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.”

“When I came back from the military and completed a 4-year degree in 2 1/2 years, I developed the extraordinary habits needed to get a lot done in a very short period of time!”

“We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!”

“You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don't let others stop you from reaching your goals.”

“I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible - to act as if they could accomplish anything!”

“My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!”

“We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.”

“You would think that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you'd be wrong. American schools now hide their students from ideas like mine if they don't approve of the man or the message.”

“Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.”