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.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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

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

You can observe a lot just by watching.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

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?

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.