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

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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?

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

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

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.