Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

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

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man…only five hundred.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

Difficulties break some men but make others.

If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.