The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.