A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

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

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.