To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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.