Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
