If you do not gather firewood you cannot keep warm.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.