The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into read more

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

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

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

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.

'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.

Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we read more

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.