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

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.

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.

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

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.