The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Please all, and you will please none.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Genius is eternal patience.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.