One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Genius is eternal patience.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Great companies are built on great products.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
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.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.