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

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

There is little success where there is little laughter.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.