Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Great companies are built on great products.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

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.