Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. read more

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but read more

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have read more

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive read more

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told read more

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, read more

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.