If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

Listen if you want to be heard

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Great companies are built on great products.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

Fake it until you make it.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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

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