The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
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.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
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.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
Fake it until you make it.
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.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Please all, and you will please none.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
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.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
