Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

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

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

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

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

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