Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.