I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.