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've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Only you can control your future.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

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.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.