The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

When things go wrong don't go with them

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.

Please all, and you will please none.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

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.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.