I won't invent anything that won't sell. Selling is utility, and utitility is success.


Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.


It's not the having, it's the getting.


A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else.


Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but than, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.


We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power ro make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced our present actions, so we have to know how to act.


The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.


I want it said of meby those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.


Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.


I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.


The person who goes the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.


Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.


Picture yourself vividly as winning, and the alone will contribute immeasurably to success.