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.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

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...

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

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

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

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

Nothing will work unless you do.