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.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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 it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.