The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Well done is better than well said.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Percentages are why I am rich.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.