I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Genius is eternal patience.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
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.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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...
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.