Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

What one has to do usually can be done.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

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

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.