With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

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.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Only you can control your future.

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.

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...

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

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

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

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