We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.