If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

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

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Fake it until you make it.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.