Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great