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

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Great companies are built on great products.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

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

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.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.