“In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.”

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!

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East.

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack.

I went to the store to buy a race car for my son’s birthday, and the next thing I know I was working part time for the holidays. Then in February 2002, I started working on a plan to purchase the store.

Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself.

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Now I wonder why we’re f-ked up as a race. I’ve read the Bible. I can’t find the word “bunny” or “chocolate” anywhere in the f-king book.

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.