By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Listen if you want to be heard

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

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

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

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

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

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 more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.