Listen if you want to be heard

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.