The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you read more

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to read more

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain read more

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
But the prizes were not ours.