Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

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

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

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

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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