He who thinks little errs much
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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.
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.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
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.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
