To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

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

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.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

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

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.