At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

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!

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Fake it until you make it.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Listen if you want to be heard

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

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.