Estee Lauder

Business is there if you go after it.

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

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

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

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

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

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.

We want people who hate to lose, like myself.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?