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

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Only you can control your future.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

When things go wrong don't go with them

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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.

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

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

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.