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.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
