The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.