A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Genius is eternal patience.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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.

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

Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.