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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.