Action is the foundational key to all success.

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.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.