A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.