Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.