When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
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.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
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.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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 I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.