What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

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.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

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

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.