You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

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

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.