Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.