In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

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.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

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.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

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.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.