Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Great companies are built on great products.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

What one has to do usually can be done.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

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

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.