Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the change to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god’s hands.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honhonor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Maintain your car, home, and other personal belongings you rely on.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.