Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievements.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

Beware of over concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.