“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”

If you don’t have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

You can predict a persons future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.