I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

When things go wrong don't go with them

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.