The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts:
and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

When you choose your fields of labor, go where nobody else goes.

Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the colour from a person's entire existence.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the warrior takes everything
as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

A great time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

You do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

We should distrust any elaborately planned, centrally deployed, and carefully developed business system or process. Successful systems and processes will be agile and dynamically adaptive; they'll grow and evolve as needed over time.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.