Jeff Olson Quotes:

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.39, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Waiting, Too Late, Never Too Late

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.226, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Powerful, Essentials, Showing Up, Positive Outlook

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.72, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Successful, People, Habit

Successful people fail their way to the top!

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.27, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Successful, People, Way

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

Topics: Mind, Body, Critical

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

Topics: Journey, Thinking, Steps, Single Step

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

Topics: Two, Typical, Needs, Significant Change, Changes In Society

There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

Topics: Dream, Giving Up, Two, Stretching

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

Topics: Dream, Planning, Building

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

Topics: Book, Generations, Stories, Combining

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.133, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Fate, Exercise, Greatness, Great Person, Predestined

When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

Topics: Responsibility, Fate, Hands

The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me?

source: - "The Bully’s Pulpit". thebaffler.com. July 2015.

Topics: Marketing, Asking, Want, Mlm, Network Marketing

When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

Topics: Live Your Life, Way, Tendencies

The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.19, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Book, People, Action

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.20, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Attitude, Philosophy, Positive Life, Positive Results

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.66, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: World, Want, Today, Today's World

Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.144, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Enemy

Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

Topics: Action, Position

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends,

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.196, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Average, Income, Equal

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.58, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Successful, Differences, People

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

Topics: Successful, People, Successful People

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.71, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Jobs, Successful, People, Get The Job Done

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.

Topics: Get Better

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.77, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Needs, Sometimes, Slow Down

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

Topics: Busy, Doing The Right Thing, Productive, Being Busy

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

source: - Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.256, Greenleaf Book Group

Topics: Doe, Way, Remember

Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

Topics: Empowering, Levels, Awareness, Conscious Awareness

Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

Topics: People, Goal, Mind, Surround Yourself With People

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Topics: Failure In Life, Blaming Others, Inspirational Track, Personal Responsibility, Fear Of Failing