Thomas Carlyle

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

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

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

Really good people like me are scared of falling off. I’m totally scared of falling off. Just imagine it. Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was wack. What would I do then?

Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn’t what we expect or want.- Donald J. Trump

I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.

Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.