If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

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.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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

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

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.