Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Please all, and you will please none.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.