"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days."

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The 'if' thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback. The 'how' thinker wastes no energy on postmortems when trouble or even disaster hits him. He immediately starts looking for the best solution."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life."

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."

"All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition."

"In civil business, what first? Boldness. What's second and third? Boldness."

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at."

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial."