A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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