No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

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.