You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Fake it until you make it.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.