If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

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.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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