You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

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.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Fake it until you make it.

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.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

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

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.