A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.