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

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

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.

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

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

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

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.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.