Genius is eternal patience.

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.

Great companies are built on great products.

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.

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Only you can control your future.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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

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.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Action is the foundational key to all success.