Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

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

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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