“You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.”

When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!

Tempo … now there’s a big word.

All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

Get the big idea and all else follows.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

I’m a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.