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

Please all, and you will please none.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Only you can control your future.

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

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

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

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

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

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.