Quotes About Wisdom

If the grass is greener on the other side it's probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.