Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink 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.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
