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.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
Listen if you want to be heard
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.
