If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
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...
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Advertising is legalized lying.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
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 no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
