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

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that’s what I’ve always wanted.

You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

It’s the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.