I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
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 best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Listen if you want to be heard
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.