The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

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.

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.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Only you can control your future.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

He who thinks little errs much

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Great companies are built on great products.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.