Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

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

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.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.