Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.
The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
What makes America great is in our imagination, not in memorization. We are not a memorization-fixated culture. We can't compete with the Chinese and Japanese in memorization. Where we have been competitive is in creativity.
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
You have to have passion for what you're doing.
You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.
Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.