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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.