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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

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

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Genius is eternal patience.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

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.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.