You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
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.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
He who thinks little errs much
Genius is eternal patience.
