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

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

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.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

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

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

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

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

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

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

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.