If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
He who thinks little errs much
