THE NINE PRINCIPLES OF EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENT (6)

6. CHARACTER

The successful are always open and honest in all business and dealings. Integrity is the basis of trust.

Character is the one quality that cannot be acquired, only earned. Character is the poor man’s capital.

Every thought that enters our mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the innermost fiber of our being, and the result of these impressions is our character.

It’s been anonymously written: “Fame is vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

Excerpted From What Makes The Great GREAT?, Dr. Dennis P. Kimbro, Ph.D, First Main Street Books, 1998.