Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

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

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.