The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Only you can control your future.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

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

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.