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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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

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.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

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.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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

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

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