Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.