The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

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.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

Well done is better than well said.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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