Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

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.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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?

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

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