No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

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

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

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

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

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.