Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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.

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.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

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

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.