There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Genius is eternal patience.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
