I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

He who thinks little errs much

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.

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

Please all, and you will please none.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.