It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

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

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.