Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

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.

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.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.