The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.