Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

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

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

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.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.