If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea without compass rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is which way he is going and where he is going to land.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.