Work longer during the week if you have to. The most successful people in business are interesting. When the opposite is true, hold steady and wait it out. Understand the skills and abilities that set you apart. When ever you have an opportunity, use them.
People remember the end of the project.
Never have more children than you have car windows. Never loan your car to someone to whom you have given birth. Pick your friends carefully. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.