Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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.

Please all, and you will please none.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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?

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

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.

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.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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.