The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

What one has to do usually can be done.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Well done is better than well said.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

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

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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

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