The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

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

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.