Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Young man, make your name worth something.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.