Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Great companies are built on great products.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Fake it until you make it.
He who thinks little errs much
Good things happen to those who hustle.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
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.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
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.