Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

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.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.