The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

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.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.