Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Please all, and you will please none.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.