“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.”

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

That was a good fight back in the gym, he said. But i think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.