I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
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.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Please all, and you will please none.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
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.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.