I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.