“When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?”

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

In my experience, good executives don’t make mistakes.

If my competitor were drowning I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.

It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.

Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Faith is trusting in the good. Fear is putting your trust in the bad.

Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don’t say anything bad. Don’t be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.