Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
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.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
