Estee Lauder

Business is there if you go after it.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.