We're trapped in linguistic constructs. . . all that is is metaphor.
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
. . . Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.