Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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!
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Fake it until you make it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
