When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

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.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Well done is better than well said.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

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.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Nothing will work unless you do.