Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Listen if you want to be heard

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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!

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

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