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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.