A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Percentages are why I am rich.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

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

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.