I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

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.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.