When things go wrong don't go with them

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs