To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
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...
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Percentages are why I am rich.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
