“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.”

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.

Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

It’s not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.