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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

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

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Listen if you want to be heard

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

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.