The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
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.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
