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

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.

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

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

When things go wrong don't go with them

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.