Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.