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

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

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.

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

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

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

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

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.