I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
You can observe a lot just by watching.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
