Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Percentages are why I am rich.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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...
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
