In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Listen if you want to be heard
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
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.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
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!
