Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.