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

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

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.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Fake it until you make it.

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.