Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.