I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Youth doesn't take advice.

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.