Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Put yourself in your customer's place.

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.