Better reap two days too soon than one too late.

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

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

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

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.

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

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.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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.

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

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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.

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

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

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

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.