Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Percentages are why I am rich.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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

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

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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.