The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get 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?
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
He who thinks little errs much
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.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Only you can control your future.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.