Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

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

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

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.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.