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.

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.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Please all, and you will please none.

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

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.