Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.