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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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.

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!

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.