Society and the World

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A little twist to the usual, ‘Everything comes to he who waits’. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.