Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

When things go wrong don't go with them

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.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Genius is eternal patience.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.