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

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.