Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

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.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

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

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.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.