Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Fake it until you make it.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Please all, and you will please none.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

You can't make souffle rise twice.