A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

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

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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!