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

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.

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.

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

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.