If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

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

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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.

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

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals