Everything in life is luck.
You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.
The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay? . . . Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong. If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they’ll be more industrious; they’ll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all-and more revenue for government.
It’s always good to be underestimated.
I said on the Department of Justice, I would stay uninvolved. Now I may get involved at some point if it gets worse.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going.
It’s easy to say no! when there’s a deeper yes! burning inside.
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.
I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
