A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
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.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
What one has to do usually can be done.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
