If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
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.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure