If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Fake it until you make it.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Please all, and you will please none.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.