The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

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

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

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.

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

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.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.