“Understand the difference between being at work and working.”

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we made today.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

I’ll be back.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

Remember the to-do list but don’t forget the to-be list.