A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Great companies are built on great products.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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...
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
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.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
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.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
