Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn’t need one.
All creative people hate mathematics. It’s the most uncreative subject you can study.
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment – his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Essentially, I’m a small-part actor who’s been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat.
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
When tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs constricts your ability to think or even breath. Or you can try to find meaning.
Next time you are about to call a little call ‘bossy’, say instead: she has executive leadership skills.
I really believe in what Facebook does. You know technology was going to change all our lives and it has. But technology to power us as people is really the social networking movement.
For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
Women need to shift from thinking, I’m not ready to do that, to thinking, I want to do that, and I’ll learn by doing it.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do work of superior people.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
Perseverance can overcome all obstacles. Even the laws of nature cannot stop it.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity and obligation; Every possession a duty.
I believe that it is my duty to make money and use it for the benefit of my neighbors. This is what my conscience tells me.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
The happiest and most successful people I know don’t just love what they do, they’re obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.
The hardest-working people don’t work hard because they’re disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball… The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got.
I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
