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

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?

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

Listen if you want to be heard

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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...

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Genius is eternal patience.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Percentages are why I am rich.