I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

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

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.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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