If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.