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

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

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.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?