“Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.”

It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”

Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don’t know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

Everyone has their own destiny. Not everyone makes the choice to follow it. And I’m lucky I did.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

Never follow the crowd, go where it’s empty.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.