People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

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.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.