If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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

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

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.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.