Percentages are why I am rich.

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.

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.

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.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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

When things go wrong don't go with them

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.