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.

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

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

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

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

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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.

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.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.