Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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 you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
