If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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

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

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.