The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.