All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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.

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

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

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

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.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.