Work and Profession

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Income seldom exceeds Personal Development.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.