It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

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

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Please all, and you will please none.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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