We sell books, other people sell shoes. What’s the difference? Publishing isn’t the highest art.
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn’t care.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don’t want to read.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee’s affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.
It is worth noting that the desert provides every kind of torment – heat, cold, rain, flash floods, windstorms, biting insects, and sandstorms, sometimes all on the same day.
Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” He had an instinctive understanding of the fact that the British as a people dislike boasting, and pride themselves not on victory but on being able to “take it.