The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Fake it until you make it.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
