If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

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.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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

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.

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

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.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Work is love made visible.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.