People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?

He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened, he’s come alive.

The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.