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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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.