Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
