Either you run the day or the day runs you.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Please all, and you will please none.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...