Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

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

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Percentages are why I am rich.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Genius is eternal patience.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.