“Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.”

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.

Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way.

People will support that which they help to create.

Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Don’t limit yourself.

I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.