“We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.”

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

Moments are the elements of profit.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything that I’ve ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can’t always win, but don’t be afraid of making decisions.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.