Please all, and you will please none.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

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.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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.

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

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.