It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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

Please all, and you will please none.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Genius is eternal patience.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.