Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

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

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

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.