All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

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?

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Great companies are built on great products.

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

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.