Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Never spend your money before you have it.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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.

Dream big and kick ass.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.