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

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

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

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

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.