When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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!
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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.
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
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.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Please all, and you will please none.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
