“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else.”

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

“Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country's ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker.”

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

“And most of all, I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed, then the country succeeds.”

“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”

“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”

“I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.”