Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

Always avoid the acute angle.

I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.