Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Listen if you want to be heard

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

He who thinks little errs much

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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