No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Great companies are built on great products.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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

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

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

You can observe a lot just by watching.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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