Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.
If it doesn't add value, it's waste.
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
success is 99% failure
Understand the difference between being at work and working.
The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.
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.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
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.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
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.
You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
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.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
People are as happy as they choose to be.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
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