Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

There is only one success for all humanity: to have a positive impact on the preservation and prosperity of life. Any achievement other than this is at best merely a platform to pursue real success.

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve