Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
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.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
