Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.