Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

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

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.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

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

Please all, and you will please none.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Great companies are built on great products.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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