A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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

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.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

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

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.