A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History is more or less bunk.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

I don't take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can't give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it's very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.

Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Your friend is your needs answered.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.