If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.