Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.