To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.