The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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.

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

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.