Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
It's the start that stops most people.
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.