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.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.