If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
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.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Listen if you want to be heard
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
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.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
