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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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.

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