The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
Whatever you resist will persist.
The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
People are as happy as they choose to be.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
If it doesn't add value, it's waste.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
success is 99% failure
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