Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.