Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.