There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.