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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

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

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Genius is eternal patience.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

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

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.