Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

When things go wrong don't go with them

You can observe a lot just by watching.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

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.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.