The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.