No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

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.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.