Thomas J. Vilord

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

We’ve realized the situation will not change so the answer is for us to change.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

We grow great by dreams.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Unite to win. Divide to conquer.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.