Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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.
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.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Please all, and you will please none.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.