“Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.”

“When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.”

“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”

“To fear the worst oft cures the worst.”

“The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”

“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”

“Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.”