The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals