Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure.

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.