Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Genius is eternal patience.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

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.

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

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.

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