One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
He who thinks little errs much
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.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.