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.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
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.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.