I raised my prices since there wasn't any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn't anyone to beat?

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Sometimes you have to sit alone and enjoy the nature and try to see in the sky transparent faces.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.