“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.”

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

To make headway, improve your head.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.