The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

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

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

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.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Please all, and you will please none.