Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
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.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.