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.

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

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Please all, and you will please none.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Fake it until you make it.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.