No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
What one has to do usually can be done.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
