Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

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

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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