Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Percentages are why I am rich.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.