Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

Please all, and you will please none.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.