The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.