If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Great companies are built on great products.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

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