If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Please all, and you will please none.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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

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

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Great companies are built on great products.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.