Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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!

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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.

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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.