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.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

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

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. 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.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.