If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Please all, and you will please none.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.