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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

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.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

You can observe a lot just by watching.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.