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.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Please all, and you will please none.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
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.
The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
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.
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.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
