“Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.”

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.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

You smell good, too, said patchit’s called a shower. I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, i turned sideways. Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.Naked. I know the drill.

I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.

GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she’s fearless and she’s ahead of the game. She’s ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I’ve just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don’t think I’m ahead of anybody.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.