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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

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.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy