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.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Well done is better than well said.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

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

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.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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

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

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.