Nothing will work unless you do.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

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

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Listen if you want to be heard

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Genius is eternal patience.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

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

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

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