People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

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

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

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

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.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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...