When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

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

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.