Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Advertising is legalized lying.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

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

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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

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

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.