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.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

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

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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

You can observe a lot just by watching.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.