A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Fake it until you make it.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
