Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

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 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.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.