It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Please all, and you will please none.

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

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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...

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.