You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

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

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals