An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go...

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

We all find time to do what we really want to do

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

You can always tell a Harvard man — but you can’t tell him very much.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are “just...

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

Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

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

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I’ll get all that’s good for me, and will what’s left to those who want it.

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

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

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Few of us get anything without working for it

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.

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

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Unless a man is kicked around a little, you can’t really depend on him to amount to anything.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

. . . [but] next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-rate job under your direction.

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

The only thrill worth while is the one that comes from making something out of yourself

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

No man is a failure who enjoys life

We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.