If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.