No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

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

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

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

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.