When things go wrong don't go with them
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
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.
'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
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.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
