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

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Well done is better than well said.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Listen if you want to be heard

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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