No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.